Trumpeting diversity undermines what you are trying to achieve in the first place. It should happen without fanfare.
We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!
A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.
I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.
We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.
I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
My favourite place in the world to run is Stanley Park in Vancouver. One loop around there is perfect.
My favourite place to train is in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where I train with my aunt and sister during the off-season. It is basically a flat, grassy area by the side of the road where we have made a path to run on.
My favourite place was in The Congo. It's where I began to write songs and build myself as an adult.
In February 1969, 25 years ago, I arrived as a young, terrified PFC on this lonely little hill in Quang Ngai Province. Back then, the place seemed huge and imposing and permanent.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
