Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

Frances Townsend

When the civilized world demonstrated its determination, the Libyan government correctly judged its own interests, and the American people are safer.

John Galbraith

We are on the edge of a total end to civilized existenceon this planet, perhaps the end of life itself.

Elton Gallegly

from a civilized world out to god-forsaken Kern County.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Kathleen Blanco

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

Sam Harris

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

Greg Boyle

Redemption is possible, and it is the measure of a civilized society.

Alfred Nobel

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.

Armand Salmon

Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Mike Helton

We don't want to react just for the sake of reacting. We want to measure all of the possible ramifications before we make a decision.

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

Bob Gunton

Put your trust in the Lord....your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

Jan Hus

I trust in the Lord God Almighty ... that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.

bell hooks

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death.

C. S. Lewis

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

Amy Waldman

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

Dean Koontz

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

Ben Jacobson

It was a little redemption after the Creighton game.

Yoshihiko Noda

A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.

Edward Snowden

I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things... I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

B. F. Skinner

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

John Rhys-Davies

I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.

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.

Charles Lamb

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Edith Wharton

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

John Roberts

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

Louis Zamperini

'Unbroken' was published as a help to society.