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?

Mark Twain

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities

Henry Ford

In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

George Galloway

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only.

John Ciardi

A savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.

Sheikh Ahmad

He is very stubborn. When he puts his mind into something, he will do it.

Alex Solis

He really won it very easy. That's what I had in my mind, not to squeeze him.

Heywood Broun

Her mind is so open that the wind whistles through it

Dave Tippett

His mind is in the right place now.

Martin Brodeur

I thought we played really well. We've got to get the third period out of our mind and be comfortable with how we played.

Darrell Bevell

It had to do with his feet, and where his mind was at the time.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Bob Pringle

He needs this right now, just to get his mind off the other stuff.

Robert Collier

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Tom Glavine

I think we need to do everything we can to put everyone's mind at ease about players using steroids,

Mike Moran

I think they will ease policy at that time,

John Edward

One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.

John Calvin

First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

George Crabbe

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

John Lancaster Spalding

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

Jim Rohn

Enterprise is better than ease.

Tom Hougaard

They may even ease rates because of Katrina.

Dave Hakstol

We open up with Manitoba and then do not ease into our schedule.