Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

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?

Will Durant

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

Will Durant

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

Will Durant

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Samuel P. Huntington

Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually evolve into a universal state.

Samuel P. Huntington

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

William J. Brennan

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

Walt Whitman

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

Roone Arledge

Most of what we report from Congress they don't care about unless it affects them directly.

Rod Stewart

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

Wole Soyinka

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

Winona Ryder

That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

Joseph Addison

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Liane Moriarty

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

Emmy Rossum

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

Mike Coulter

I think it is the most challenging race in the city. This year, it is the longest competitive race in the city.

Paula Gonzalez

He just had a longtime want to be in the military.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Richard Whately

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

Richelle Mead

I wanted someone a little more approachable," I explained. "What, like Captain McTropicalShorts back there? Where on earth did you find him anyway?" "Just did an Internet search." Feeling a need to defend my research, I added, "He comes highly recommended." "By who? Long John Silver?

Richelle Mead

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.