To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.
It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.
I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.
There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'.
Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'
I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
To be 'decimated' means to lose a tenth of one's population. I've lived in places where that's just a busy Saturday night.
Secret 9.6. When writing a contact report, the term 'intense vocalization' should be used in place of words like 'moan,' 'pant' and 'sigh.
I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.
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.
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
