#place

We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all over the place. I'd been working on films and television shows all over the world. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#both #exactly #films #i #jobs

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. ↗

— John Major

#beginning #between #cared #changes #did

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. ↗

— Roger Caras

#greatest #historical #museums #others #our

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. ↗

— Paul de Man

#alone #ashes #behind #fashion #fire

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#i #interest #investigate #life #much

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real. ↗

— Edouard Manet

#believe #canvas #concentrate #difficult #figure

Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#continuous #crime #even #hell #oppress

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright. ↗

— Jose Marti

#birthright #completely #country #culture #disposal

All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#burial #earth #every #fit #places

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy