Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Dershowitz

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

Mick Jagger

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

Ray Charles

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.

Norman Finkelstein

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

Missy Elliot

I love this city [Tel Aviv]!

Michael Scheuer

It's very clear from what he [Osama ben Laden] said, what his lieutenants have said, that America is not even their main enemy. We're simply in the way of what they want to do in their own world, which is to destroy police states and Israel.

Jesse Jackson

That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about.

Hillary Clinton

In defeating terror, Israel's cause is our cause.

Hillary Clinton

Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.

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.

Raymond Loewy

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

Victor Davis Hanson

The easily ridiculed, so-so status quo often hides Herculean efforts by those whom we take for granted, and who, working in the shadows, guarantee civilization instead of chaos.

Victor Hugo

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

Victor Hugo

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

Vernon Lee

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

Vaclav Havel

We are the first atheistic and global, all-embracing civilization. You cannot tell whether you are sitting at an airport in Hong Kong or in a hotel in Alaska. Everything is instrumentalized, subjected to a short-term purpose. It is quite possible that in such a situation any sense of a deeper meaning gets lost.

Vaclav Havel

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Elizabeth Scott

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

Anais Nin

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Regina Brett

When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.

Bill Engvall

I called my pilot 2 weeks before I flew and asked him, I don't want to get sick, what should I eat? He said, Peanut Butter. I said, If I eat peanut butter then I won't get sick? He said, no, but it tastes the same comin' up as it does goin' down.

Carrie Fisher

You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

Mike Dowd

We had a long weekend. We were all fatigued; we were all sick at one point.

Jay Leno

Some sad news, President Bush's lapdog passed away. Gee, I didn't even know Tony Blair was sick?

Candace Bushnell

Meanwhile I'll probably see him again. That's how sick I am.

James Hetfield

I don't remember doing anything else; I don't remember not living in the studio. I'm itching for people to hear this album because I'm sick of hearing it myself.