Taking Place Quotes

150 quotes by 131 authors

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there's some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere… — Richard Branson
I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was… — Geraldine Brooks
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action. — John Henrik Clarke
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,… — George Washington
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so… — Jonas Salk
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness.… — Deepak Chopra
... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that was taking place… — Shakti Gawain
We are living in a very exciting and powerful time. On the deepest level of consciousness, a radical spiritual transformation is taking place. I believe… — Shakti Gawain
Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and… — George W. Bush
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
February 1997 - National Prayer Breakfast in Washington attended by the President and the First Lady. "What is taking place in America," she said, "is… — Mother Teresa
On the world scene, it is our position that there is a resurgence of socialism taking place. The world's socialist and Communist forces are now… — Gus Hall
The most obvious feature of the brain is that it is not homogeneous, but composed of different regions. There are no intrinsic moving parts, no… — Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
In geology the effects to be explained have almost all occurred already, whereas in these other sciences effects actually taking place have to be explained. — James Croll
So let us decide whether you want a shelter, a safety zone, which will no longer yield conflict, whether you want to escape from the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
While the Congress came out with Federal Investigation Agency Bill after Mumbai attacks, the BJP had come out with POTA. However, the important aspect is… — Sitaram Yechury
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures… — David Korten
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it… — Jay Sekulow
Honestly this is not going to change unless the people who want to prevent these kinds of mass shootings from taking place feel at least… — Barack Obama

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