Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tang Jiaxuan

Anti-terrorism is a fight between justice and evil, civilization and savagery.

Paula Allen

An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization is mentioned: little or nothing.

Rabindranath Tagore

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrificed.

Thomas E. Mann

Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

L. Doctorow

So what this is is a 'road novel.' Eventually entire civilization (in the South) had been uprooted and people found security only in movement, ... That interested me enormously ... A friend from New Orleans, he said when he read the book, 'This is like Hurricane Katrina.'

Sid Meier

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

Fawaz Gerges

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,

Shashi Tharoor

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

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.

Madonna Madonna

People do see me as a less threatening individual now. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

John Ashcroft

An individual with that kind of situation is an individual who might know a lot about what could happen, might know the names of individuals, information being so key to intelligence and prevention,

Sam Brownback

an individual of unquestionable qualifications and a long judicial track record.

Mark Jones

The team won't be with me, so I'll just go look at it as an individual tournament just like the ones I play in over the summer.

Festus Mogae

The sorting (and valuation) normally would take place in each individual country,

Louis MacNeice

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.

Ray Elliott

I've never seen an individual request more time,

Lindsay Whalen

I've been having that my whole life, where there haven't been a lot of individual awards,

Ron Messick

They all had their own individual abilities, but I could tell they were special players.

Bill Hornbarger

The big thing on everybody's mind is oil prices.

Toba Beta

A well-trained mind responded to symptoms. An ordinary mind reacted after it happened.

Suze Orman

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

Louis Graham

Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way.

Mark Cox

That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit.

Brandon Sanderson

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

Baruch Spinoza

He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine.

Baruch Spinoza

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

Baruch Spinoza

Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action.

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Guy deBord

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Frank Zappa

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Giorgio Armani

Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire.

Walt Kelly

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

Roger Lempke

If we want to keep soldiers, we need to train them on modern equipment.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.