Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ruth Benedict

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the threshold of his potentialities without a culture in which he participates. Conversely, no civilization has in it any element which in the last analysis is not the contribution of an individual.

Thomas Mann

Speech is civilization itself.

Steven Erikson

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

Stephen Hawking

If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call us when you get here – we'll leave the lights on'? Probably not – but this is more or less what is happening with AI,

Ron Paul

Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization.

Storm Jameson

Writers sometimes talk as though they were the only friends of civilization. This is their conceit. But they have special powers to serve -- or to corrupt -- civilization, and are obliged to use them.

Stewart Brand

Civilization’s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Stephen Spender

The only true hope for civilization-the conviction of the individual that his inner life can affect outward events and that, whether or not he does so he is responsible for them.

Barbara Mandrell

That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

Ayn Rand

There are two side to every issue.

Janet Jackson

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

Barry Switzer

The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.

Robert Kiyosaki

There are only two things you can invest: Time & Money. Of the two, Time is more important.

Robert Kiyosaki

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Donald Glover

If I'm a faggot spell it right, I got way more than two G's

Dale Earnhardt

Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

Dustin Diamond

There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life

Jamie Foxx

Lil Wayne is a music god!!!!

Ben Fountain

Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.

Jason Aldean

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

Janet Jackson

I'm fine the way I am. There's nothing wrong with me.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Edward Norton

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

Aristotle

Nature operates in the shortest way possible.

Author unknown

You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.