Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Ambrose Bierce

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

Andre Gide

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Alvin Toffler

By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism.

Alvin Toffler

Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.

Alvin Toffler

One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.

E. F. Schumacher

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

Victoria Gotti

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

Michael Sheen

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

Roberto Unger

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

Will Ferrell

I've had moments in my life when I've thought if I wasn't acting, if I wasn't doing what I do and I had a career in the private sector and I didn't have a family, that I do have some tendencies where I could really kind of have a monastic existence and be okay with it.

Tom Hodgkinson

Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-ness and moneymaking, so we must embrace, salute and support our poets.

Harry Crosby

Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Don Allen

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Ray Gilmer

This is not a deep, hard freeze yet, but that may change.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Bernard Baruch

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

George Gurdjieff

A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

George Gurdjieff

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Martin Eggleston

The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Eric Stoltz

Roger visited us and got to know and spend time with Nestor before he died. That's an important part of the process of portraiture. And, of course, we have thousands of photos.

Martin Heidegger

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

Lev Grossman

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

Lindsey Williams

The talks have been constructive. We have had progress.

Kofi Annan

Africans are making important progress on all fronts,

Arthur Conan Doyle

The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We draw compound interest on the whole capital of knowledge and virtue which has been accumulated since the dawning of time.

Daniel H. Pink

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

Booker T. Washington

An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint.

Swami Vivekananda

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.

Chris Corrigan

I don't think any progress has been made on that front.

Rob Kues

She was a work in progress for most of the season. Now we have her right where we want her to be.

Helen Keller

He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress.

Tom Daschle

I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Ludwig von Mises

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.