Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.

Roger Ebert

What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.

Roger Ebert

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

Roger Ebert

I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.

Rod Taylor

I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

William Faulkner

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Whittaker Chambers

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Richard Scrushy

I wouldn't believe anything that man said. This is horrible that there are people who would do something like this to a company.

Mark Hogan

Jac says he'll bring this to everyone first, but we believe we're in the lead.

Ken Torkelson

I would say that every biologist believes they will come back, as they have for over 100 years, unless something drastic happens.

Hines Ward

Joey is a bold man. We're his teammates. We've got to back him up. Stevens, that's on him. I don't believe in calling people out. I'm a big believer in letting my play do the talking.

Jay Wright

I think in the back of our guys' minds, they always believe that can happen at any time and they have that great confidence. It's exciting as hell because in two possessions, you're making up six points. It's such a momentum-changer. It's fun to have those shooters.

Ryan Daubenmire

It came as a real shock to us. It's crazy. We just couldn't believe it.

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

John Ciardi

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

John Buchan

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

John Cheever

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

John Boyd Orr

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

John Boyd Orr

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

John Amery

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.