The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. – Havelock Ellis
Affirmative action works but we’re going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place. – Harold Washington
It’s actually very hard when you’re settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go. – Jo Brand
Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes. – Jacques Lacan
I had the feeling that Sarajevo was the perfect place to shoot the film I wanted to shoot. It is the perfect illustration of purgatory. – Jean-Luc Godard
I remain deeply concerned about falling wages and the lack of good jobs for Americans. Too many of our citizens are either stuck in place or falling behind, and too often their needs are forgotten. – Jeff Sessions
I have a place that I get to go to in the Bahamas. It’s the only place that guarantees total anonymity and freedom. – Johnny Depp
I’m actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it’s the place I know best. – Jim Harrison
Gloucester’s not some chi-chi tourist town. It’s a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place. – Israel Horovitz
Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. – Ida B. Wells
Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had. – Joe Manganiello
So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it. – James Dickey
I think it’s been the topic of conversation for every one… If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place. – Holly Johnson
Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country’s immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own. – John Barrasso
Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we’re nurturing here. – Joel Salatin