Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Ayn Rand

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities

Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Paul Johnson

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

Sigmund Freud

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Jose Rizal

Death has always been the first sign of European civilization when introduced in the Pacific.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

David Brokaw

They define something special in human nature. They give us a measure of what's possible and what's truly sensational or phenomenal.

Kevin Hall

We're not going to define success by a dollar figure.

John Roberts

An administrator can define the rules without the need to do any programming.

Paul Hewitt

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

Jim Auld

They didn't define what they were going to do.

John Mayoue

They have the opportunity to define the family, so to speak, to talk about what kind of family we want raising our children.

David Gelinas

It's a way for us to define what values and goals we feel are most important for the downtown area.

Tom Brokaw

John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment.

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Annika Sorenstam

I just thought that is pretty neat. She comes from a small town, just like I do, and I thought, 'Wow! If she can do that, maybe I can follow my dreams and one day be able to follow her path.

Jeff Mangum

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Lucy Lawless

I'm thrilled that women are encouraged to follow their dreams and I am equally pleased that young men are getting a new view of women: an unapologetic woman.

Hilary Clinton

In my dreams I meet six New Yorkers I screwed over. Whether I did it legally or not is irrelevant.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Randy Smith

The last four years have been great. It's a lot of coaches' dreams to be at the state tournament, and it was a dream for me. But these are super, super kids. It's hard to let them go.

Jonathan Lewis

It's a game every kid who plays football dreams about playing in. This is just a dream come true.

Joe Girardi

I took this situation because I wanted this situation and I wanted these kids. We all want to help these kids succeed. We all want to help them realize their dreams and become great players.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Stan Williams

Guys don't have very many ways to express themselves. Facial hair is equated with masculinity, and men's fashion is very masculine right now. They also make younger guys look older.

E. B. White

We think gene expression is a major part of what separates chimps and humans.

Hugo Ch

He was expressing the wishes of the U.S. elite, ... If anything happens to me, then the man responsible will be George W. Bush. He will be the assassin.

Shreya Ghoshal

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

Sarah Hall

I can gabble on now, but I couldn't when I was a kid, so I spent a lot of time in my own head on the moors by myself. It felt like writing was the right way to express myself.

Suzy Menkes

I am grateful to have spent 25 years at the 'International Herald Tribune' - a newspaper where I had unstinting support in being able to express myself freely and honestly.

Larry Garza

He never expressed anything to me about pain.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth recognized something else in her face, too - in the hard set of her mouth and the deliberate way she raised her chin like she was ready to accept any challenge. Reyna was forcing a look of courage, while holding back a mixture of hopefulness and worry and fear that she couldn't show in public. Annabeth knew that expression. She saw it every time she looked in a mirror.

Mark Slotsve

It actually helps to have played them, we know a little of what they're about.

Sufjan Stevens

I think it just helps us to feel kind of unified,

Marcus Spears

I think it helps us a lot to know we can be better than we were, ... and we still played effectively.

Bobby Smith

It ain't easy. When you can't do what you want to do on the field, it's tough. But I still want to be able to help out the team.

Bouna Ndiaye

He wants to play for the Lakers, and I think he can help the Lakers. We can wait for the Lakers for about a week to make a decision. He has high interest from teams in Europe. But Ronny wants to play for the Lakers.

A. Hodge

He wants to do whatever it takes to help the team win a championship, whether it's two rebounds or whatever. That's admirable. We know it's going to be a process.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

Doug Mitchell

He did everything he could to help this team succeed.

Stephen Jones

He can really help solidify our offensive line. We needed some flexibility there as well.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Bobby Holik

Jacques Lemaire said when a team fails, no individual is successful, ... When a team is successful, all the individuals are successful.

Michel Lu

It is not to be used for personal reasons or by individual personalities.

Tyler Blackburn

I really like individualism based on truth.

Sarah Vowell

You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Rudolf Steiner

We differ from one another in our individual gifts which, however, belong to our inner nature.

Walt Disney

I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.

Walt Whitman

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

Zora Neale Hurston

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

William P. Leahy

The challenge for the church is how do we have unity about basic beliefs and yet respect individual differences.

Stephen Sondheim

I happen to like movies and plays about dislikeable people as long as I get to know why they are what they are.

John Fithian

Here's what we know about 2005: The movies are not as good,

Heather Graham

I watched movies and thought, 'I want to be in movies,' and wanted to be an actor.

Kristan Higgins

There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books!

Steven Bauer

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Vincent Cassel

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.

Hugh Dillon

I'm working consistently, and they're using my music in the movies,

Chris Evans

I'm not trying to steal the show. I tend to shy away from - I don't want to say the spotlight - how about responsibility? It's just very daunting. These movies are very intimidating. 'Captain America.' This is the stuff I struggle with.

Tom Stoppard

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Dave Taylor

He is probably the premiere mystery writer today. He's our generation's Dashiell Hammett.

Eric Bana

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Jeff Vogt

It's still a mystery for a lot of people what he will do or who will actually run the government.

Judith Kilpatrick

It was just a wonderful mystery in many respects.

Ben Sherwood

There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.

John Green

We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Deepak Chopra

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Richard Dawkins

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

Tryon Edwards

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

Richard Louv

Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

Richard Le Gallienne

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

Ugo Betti

There is no forgiveness in nature.

Robert Redford

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Wallace Stevens

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

Wallace Stevens

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.