Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Forest

The Solomon Islands is on the brink, at the moment, of a civil war. They are at the crossroads,

Linda Halsey

I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time.

Colleen Kelley

A larger increase for military families clearly is in order. So too, however, is a larger increase for the men and women of the government's civilian workforce.

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.

Margaret Mead

I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?

Max Lerner

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

Nick Bostrom

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

Marjane Satrapi

Hunger eats civilization. The West is not hungry; that's why they can say they're so civilized. Civilization is the biggest bluff!

Oscar Wilde

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Jeff Thomas

Bellingham's pretty tough. They're solid all the way through. They don't seem to have any weak spots.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Tony Hsieh

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Erin Morgenstern

To be rather than to seem.