Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Banville

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

Bruce Beehler

There was not a single trail, no sign of civilization, no sign of even local communities ever having been there.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Harry Graf Kessler

It seems to me we are now, since 1789, going through the same sort of process of regeneration the Roman world went through between 300 and 500. It is only to be hoped all civilization will not again be destroyed by the anarchists.

Mel Gibson

I don't think we're crumbling as a civilization, but this is not our finest hour, and it's good to be mindful that we're all susceptible to fall and to look at what are the earmarks of a civilization on the wane. What are they - destruction of the environment? Conspicuous consumption? Heard of those?

Ludwig von Mises

Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.

Ludwig von Mises

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Cynthia Ozick

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Lorrin Lee

If you want to Rich ...own your own Home and your own Business. Be FREE to pursue life in your own way ...with all your passion.

Kerwin Forges

Cliff's been our go-to guy all year. He missed two free throws. Stuff happens. We should have won the game before that.

Ronald Reagan

Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal.

Boris Yeltsin

His contribution was invaluable to the formation of a new image of the Middle East, free of stereotypes of confrontation and enmity.

Nancy Reagan

His legacy is a strong and free America, and for this and for a lifetime of selfless service, a grateful nation thanks him.

Marshall Brown

I never even thought about it. I knew I was going to hit my free throws. I think I'm a good free throw shooter and whenever I get to the line I think I'm going to knock them down.

Teresa Case

I'm the senior, so I thought it was my job to sink those free throws. But we are all pretty good free-throw shooters, so it didn't really matter who was up there.

Valerie Azlynn

I like a man with some extra padding.

Francis Jeffrey

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

Herodotus

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Marianne Williamson

Would a man ever be called vain for speaking his mind?

Lindy Ruff

We only had two odd-man rushes the whole night.

Peter Falk

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it.

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.

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.