#place

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading. ↗

— J. F. C. Fuller

#army #battalion #boxes #chain #commander

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#canada #great #great achievements #helped #innovative

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. ↗

— Thomas Keneally

#brought #course #dogs #existed #glasgow

Israel is one of the easiest places to play ball. When I say easy I am referring to the easy lifestyle an athlete has while in Israel. It's very easy to get around the country, because it's so small. ↗

— Michael Kennedy

#around #athlete #ball #because #country

..and how sometimes when she can’t get her clients talking about what happened over there she’ll get a map of the country, an appropriate map for their world, and pinpoint where they last lived, where their family went missing. Sometimes they would be reluctant to talk, but when they saw the map they would point to a place and say, “There. My village,” and that’s how their dialogue would begin. With a sense of place. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#georgie #sense-of-place #family

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#called #destroy #developers #god #irreplaceable

War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#families #impersonal #match #name #place

Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it. ↗

— Bowie Kuhn

#because #i #now #place #probably

I learned to work on a computer years before I was placed under house arrest. Fortunately I had two laptops when I was under house arrest - one an Apple and one a different operating system. I was very proud of that because I know how to use both systems. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#arrest #because #before #both #computer

My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#live #main #place #plane #really