Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Perlstein

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Frank Pierson

Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.

Carl Sagan

I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space.

Carl Sagan

In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.

Carl Sagan

For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

Antoine Rivarol

Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism.

Bertrand Russell

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

Bertrand Russell

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

C. S. Lewis

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Eartha Kitt

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Carolyn Wells

Reward is its own virtue.

Brian Jaffe

We're excited, we're optimistic, we're hopeful. Hopefully, the rewards are going to be there. The rewards had better be there.

Carroll O'Connor

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

Bruce Barton

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

Baruch Spinoza

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Benoit Mandelbrot

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Art Alexakis

The world's most effeminate heterosexual, Daniel Johns

Anthony Storr

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may be just as irrational but which are shared by millions are called world religions.

Bill Bryson

A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

Bill Burton

There is a lightning quickness to the speed at which candidates can build and accidentally dismantle their own campaigns. If candidates don't figure out their place in the new digital world of politics, they will be destroyed by it.

Bill Burr

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

Bertrand Russell

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Bertrand Russell

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence