Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Chanel

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

Daniel Quinn

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Thomas Merton

Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.

Toni Morrison

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

Victor Hugo

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Vicki Baum

To be a Jew is a destiny

Ravi Zacharias

I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.

Ray Bradbury

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

Andy Roddick

As good as Roger is, people want to see him tested. You want there to be the Boston Celtics for the Lakers, you want there to be Red Sox for the Yankees.

Terry Stotts

Our defense got us over the hump. It was one of those games. Boston did a nice job defensively and both teams struggled to score. We stayed with our defense and fought through.

Eric Jackson

Anything that happens in Boston that's as large as the Coltrane concert demands our attention. It's a major part of our cultural landscape. Football comes in the fall, and so does the Coltrane concert.

Roy Halladay

The way Randy Johnson pitched his last time out was a good sign for New York. I've got to give the Yankees the edge in the wild card, Boston is better suited to win the division.

Daryl Morey

The product is the team, the market is Boston and competitive responses are fairly muted. You sell most of your tickets to diehard Celtics fans and there isn't much price elasticity in terms of other sports teams or entertainment options.

Bill Clinton

Tonight I come to you as a citizen, returning to you in a role I've played most of my life. I join you here in Boston as a foot soldier in the fight for our future, as we nominate a true New England patriot for president,

Thomas Gold Appleton

Boston is a state of mind.

Stephen Elop

When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away,

Kevin Starr

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

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.

Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Crystal Eastman

No more astounding relic of the subjection of women survives in western civilization than the status of the prostitute.... In connection with what other illegal vice is the seller alone penalized, and not the buyer?

Andre Maurois

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Ambrose Bierce

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

Albert Camus

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.