Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Laura Anne Gilman

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

L. Ron Hubbard

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

L. Ron Hubbard

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

Larry Niven

A civilization has the ethics it can afford

Joseph Pilates

Civilization impairs physical fitness.

Julius Nyerere

Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.

Oswald Spengler

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Paul Davies

We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.

Susan B. Anthony

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven days is too long between massages

Ani Difranco

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Andrew Motion

Like a lot of people, for a long time I thought that the road to hell is paved with bad sequels.

Amy Poehler

Keep your virginity for as long as you can, until it starts to feel weird to you. Then just get it over with.

Ally Carter

No," Preston snapped. But he didn't protest long because, if I'm going to be honest-which is kind of the point of these reports-I was already unzipping his pants.

Allen Tate

Death's long anabasis.

Alison Gopnik

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Ann Brashares

Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.

Tim Buckley

I think he cleared his mind and played. I think he's got the confidence and belief back.

Hans Eysenck

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

S. Walker

It's our belief that bringing the pride back to the inner city and linking key historical, political and cultural places will elevate the pride to greater heights.

Steve Kaplan

It's our belief she knew where he had been for the past five days,

Dan Ahrens

It's my personal belief that the Gaming and Casino Industry can continue to out-perform the overall market, on average, for years to come.

Walter Cronkite

It's my belief that we should get out now.

Joan Arc

That is far too long, for her, for us and especially for a country that prides itself on exporting its belief in a free press to the rest of the world.

Gene Stilp

It's my belief that the lieutenant governor is incapable of stepping into the shoes of the governor if that should become necessary.

Michael Fluker

It's my belief that by giving to God, he honors you.