Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Crawford

Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.

David Healy

It would be a dream come true to score and incredible to score the winner.

Carl Pettersson

It was a little easier in the dreams, ... It's nice to finish it off the way I did.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

Ted Jr.

This is a player's dream to be in a big-time game like this. To go out at night at 8 o'clock, the only game on TV, and it goes all over the world - sure, it's a dream.

Nido Qubein

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

Dick Hill

This is at the dream stage now. We need to try to stay competitive with other places. It's a quality-of-life issue.

Andy Kopplin

This is not everybody's dream house. This is a modest equivalent.

David Burgee

This is really a dream come true for me and the team. We have something to prove.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Carl von Clausewitz

In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

Carl von Clausewitz

The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

Carl von Clausewitz

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.

Carl von Clausewitz

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Carl von Clausewitz

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

Carl von Clausewitz

If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.

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.

Andre Gide

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Simone de Beauvoir

Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.

Simone Weil

The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate ...

Thor Heyerdahl

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Robert A. Heinlein

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Rutherford B. Hayes

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

Ruth Benedict

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.