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civilization people relaxation
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell
civilization america risk
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. Al Gore
civilization study problem
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'. Booker T. Washington
civilization air elements
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. Ambrose Bierce
civilization justice prejudice
Prejudices are the props of civilization. Andre Gide
civilization challenges criticism
By challenging anthropocentricism and temporal provincialism, science fiction throws open the whole of civilization and its premises to constructive criticism. Alvin Toffler
civilization creative humanity
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
civilization skills together-again
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. Alvin Toffler
civilization skills achievement
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. E. F. Schumacher
existence
My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence. Victoria Gotti
existence kenneth
I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence. Michael Sheen
existence insatiable urgent
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. Roberto Unger
existence family life moments okay private sector tendencies
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. Will Ferrell
existence poetry protest represents salute supremely
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. Tom Hodgkinson
existence fates hear lover reports though various wizard
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. Harry Crosby
free safe society
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai E. Stevenson
free game kids rebound throws
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. Carl Mattei
free land nearly people
after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land. Mahmud Abbas
free luck shot throws
Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch. Don Allen
freeze hard
This is not a deep, hard freeze yet, but that may change. Ray Gilmer
freedom rights political
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). Ayn Rand
freedom music
The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic. Kate Bush
freedom sacrifice rights
It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for. Clarence Day
freedom atheism superstitions
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. Edmund Burke
lawsuits somebody sue threatened vote wants
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. J. J. Johnson
lawsuit policeman successful worn
A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman Robert Frost
lawsuit
Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit. Addison Mizner
man might overnight settle success takes wise
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. Scottie Somers
man perot poor rich serious
Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business. Tommy Lapid
manuscript spring vanish
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! Edward Fitzgerald
man
A critic is a legless man who teaches running. Channing Pollock
man
I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world. Ted Turner
man nine observed ten
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. George Bernard Shaw
man
There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure. Bernard Baruch
man remains seldom
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour. George Gurdjieff
man pleasures quotes renounce
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. George Gurdjieff
processing surplus trade
So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade. Zheng Jingping
process
The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly. Martin Eggleston
process
The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine. John Anderson
processing wheels
You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning. Bob Poser
process fixed
Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed. Carl Rogers
process returning
We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner. Steve Siegel
process roger spend thousands time visited
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. Eric Stoltz
process temporality
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been. Martin Heidegger
process
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment. Lev Grossman
progress talks
The talks have been constructive. We have had progress. Lindsey Williams
progress
Africans are making important progress on all fronts, Kofi Annan
progress virtue interest
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. Arthur Conan Doyle
progress mastery littles
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. Daniel H. Pink
progress yards inches
An inch of progress is worth a yard of complaint. Booker T. Washington
progress path suits
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. Swami Vivekananda
progress
I don't think any progress has been made on that front. Chris Corrigan
progress work
She was a work in progress for most of the season. Now we have her right where we want her to be. Rob Kues
progress done complacency
He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress. Helen Keller
ruled
I haven't ruled anything out or anything in at this point. Tom Daschle
society alive intimacy
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. Arthur Balfour
society crime individual
Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes? Albert Einstein
society morality citizenship
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society. Thomas Jefferson
society way vegetarian
You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian. Richard Mitchell
society
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. Jens Stoltenberg
society life-is process
Life is simply the reification of the process of living. Ernst Mayr
society thousand ten
These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand. James F. Cooper
society disease want
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. Charles Caleb Colton
society fields events
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. Ludwig von Mises