The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger

Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English.
Michael Moore

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.
Barry Goldwater

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
Gore Vidal

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Golda Meir

Moses dragged us for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil.
Golda Meir

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
Golda Meir

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Dean Koontz

I'm all over the place.
Meryl Streep

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Anaxagoras

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Roald Dahl

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.
Angelina Jolie

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
Angelina Jolie

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
Buddy Hackett

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison