| "A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice." »Shana Alexander |
| "Dawson Well, all I'm saying is that I want to look back and say that I did it the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place. Dogged as many girls as I could while I was stuck in this place." »Dazed and Confused |
| "The world is content with setting right the surface of things." »John Henry Newman |
| "setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age." »William Feather |
| "Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim." »Henry Graham Greene |
| "setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." »Tom Landry |
| "There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand." »Charles Rosin |
| "When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." »Harriet |
| "setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing." »William Faulkner |
| "The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place." »Cicero |
| "The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time." »Willie Tyler |
| "If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there" »Jerry Stahl |
| "You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters." »Plato |
| "Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation." »Walter Winchell |
| "Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain." »Mary Catherine Bateson |
| "The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get." »Jim Rohn |
| "The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself." »Holly Lisle |
| "A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't." »Burt Bacharach |
| "In a mirror, last place becomes first place... Just depends on how you wish to look at it." »Debbie Skelly |
| "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." »Ayn Rand |
| "Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| "Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle." »Annie Besant |
| "The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams." »Og Mandino |
| "It is not possible to have a politics-free organization. The desire for power and control is part of human nature. Successful business leaders know how to leverage organizational politics by setting performance-oriented instead of resourcesoriented political rewards." »Med Yones |
| "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." »Cardinal Mermillod |
| "Ego is like our shadow.... when enlightenment is at its best there is no ego and we live well within ourselves.... however as soon as the sun (of sanity)starts setting our ego starts outgrowing us." »Siddharth Astir |
| "I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." »John K. Hutchens |
| "Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience here's the place to have the experience." »Joseph Campbell |
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