Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Rabindranath Tagore

Gross utility kills beauty. We now have all over the world huge production of things, huge organizations, huge administrations of empire - all obstructing the path of life. Civilization is waiting for a great consummation, for an expression of its so

Muhammad Yunus

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

Stewart Brand

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

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rebecca West

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

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?

Rose Macaulay

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Tryon Edwards

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

Mark Stephens

He knew this was a judgment that would be of enormous interest. So I think he's playing to people who like intrigue.

Robert Rubin

have an enormous stake ... in the success of Hong Kong.

Sidney Jones

Having a president with such a big mandate is going to be an enormous boost.

Larry Harrison

We took an enormous number of threes, more than we ordinarily want to take. The shots were there. We had a lot of open threes, but they just didn't go down tonight.

Gerry Adams

I think that opens up an enormous opportunity for all of us but also presents a huge challenge.

Richard Lark

There is an enormous number of people who travel on buses, who could switch if the price is low enough.

Peter Drucker

There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Marc Andreessen

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.

Francine Busby

I have enormous amounts of support. But, yes, if they do split their side, I could conceivably hit that 50 percent mark. It's a winnable race for me.

Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Gloria Bergquist

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

Paul Cooper

I thought the prisoners wouldn't want to sort through the rubbish. But they were happy to do it because of the environmental benefits.

Jose Gasset

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Samuel Wilson

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Samuel Wilson

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

John Capel

Just to let them know that I haven't given up yet. They thought I was just going to let them have the title, but not yet.

Robert McKinley

Just pay attention. Make sure you're not given a product you don't want.

David Lawrence

I think it encompasses a value that the legislature has given to the transparency of government operations, to help people understand what their government is doing and why.

Jon Brayshaw

I think it is symbolic of solidarity and what Powder Ridge means to our community. Once in a while in your life, you are given the opportunity to do something to help out someone else and do the right thing.

Max Minghella

I think it'd be pretty unrealistic to think we're the only planet in the world with thinking beings. It's kind of a strange conceit. Especially given how many universes there must be.

Patrick Jones

He is still in limbo. We have not been given any information formally of what the problem is.

Steve Rives

He is someone who has given us a real go-to guy.

Andrea Harris

has given me a more positive outlook about the growth of my business.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Woody Allen

For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.

Vanessa Hudgens

I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my parents panic a little. The best thing about living alone is being able to have my friends come over whenever.

Wayne Dyer

Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Sarah Jessica Parker

Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with.

Yanni

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

Richard Power

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

Richard P. Feynman

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Richard Dawkins

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Richard Dawkins

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

Richelle Mead

Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

Reshma Shetty

Don’t just think about the technology available today, but the technology that would be 10 times better in the future.

Ronnie Dunn

In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.

Ron Conway

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.

Tyler Cowen

apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...

Nicole Richie

I was like a trash can - I took everything.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Sibel Edmonds

And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Ashley Thomas

We took the practice, so much I shouldn't be worried.

Chas Freeman

We took them to the cleaners on that trade.

Preston Early

We took them out of some things they wanted to do.

Greg Paulus

We took them out from what they wanted to do.

Maggie Mueller

We took them lightly. And we shouldn't have.