Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fawaz Gerges

The roots of the problem lie with foreign policy rather than in society, civilization or American culture,

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Calvin Coolidge

Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

Carroll Quigley

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.

Carroll Quigley

For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Al Gore

The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.

Booker T. Washington

The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your 'civilization'.

Edgar Mitchell

The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves - see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all.

Martha Plimpton

I like things that are civilized.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Marco Coleman

As far as health, that's just a blessing. There's just so much that's out of your control, that you don't know how it's going to go. Really, you've just got to be really fortunate. You've got to be lucky.

Jon Evans

Defense is one thing you can always count on. You can't always control whether you'll have a hot shooting night, but you can always play strong defense and tonight was a good example.

Koyie Hill

The sinker he was throwing today was really nice. It doesn't take anything away from his velocity or control.

David Allen

The sense of not having control is the greatest human fear. If you don't know what the very next thing to do is, it freaks you out. The hardest thing is to get past the stage where you don't do anything.

Linda Golodner

These medications have been used safely and effectively for decades. Our program responds to an unmet need -- we will give parents greater control to get optimum treatment for their children.

Stewart Tucker

The secret, which nobody realized at the time, was that with this sand, which was 100 percent inorganic, you can control exactly what goes in it.

Bob Donovan

The second period hurt us. They gained control of the game.

Guan Yi

The studies published today reinforce the shortcomings of our efforts to control influenza.

Kristy Curry

The shots that she's taken were all good shots and that's the difference. She has done a great job lately of being able to control the tempo more and making better decisions in our half-court offense.

Corey Dillon

Oh, I don't know. We'll see. I don't want to put any stock in that. I can't put stock in that yet. ... If he doesn't do it the right way, and that's going to be the defining mode of this football team, we won't miss a beat. He says the right things to me, but I see better than I hear.

Brian Bosworth

All I want is the defining moment.

Britney Spears

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

David Quarmby

Trafalgar was a defining moment in Britain's history as it established Britain's maritime ascendancy for 100 years which saw a fantastic growth of trade and empire during Victorian times,

Peter Lindbergh

The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

Sinbad

There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

Jim Webb

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

Zygi Wilf

We feel this is a defining moment in our ownership, and I think we did this as meticulously and as forthcoming as we could have. It really felt like this is our team. This is the direction we want to go.

Daniel Day-Lewis

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

Ben Moody

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Alain de Botton

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Dale Neaman

You can tell a difference in them from the very first month. Once they have been given permission to be a woman, the depression lifts.

Alexander Lowen

Beneath the seemingly rational exterior of our lives is a fear of insanity. We dare not question the values by which we live or rebel against the roles we play for fear of putting our sanity in doubt.

Andrew Solomon

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

Dawn French

I don't know why I feel so crazy...I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.

Alice Miller

The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings.

Joe Humasti

Radford had a really good run. He skied really well despite the conditions.

Kenny Tang

Profit-taking dragged the index lower. But funds are still in Hong Kong and are helping support the index despite the pressure on stocks to trade lower after the weak showing of overseas markets.

Al Goldman

Our economy is doing well despite what is going on in Asia, and with any signs of improvement from there, it could be up, up and away for us.

Kent Early

Offensively I was more pleased with her than her pitching. She led off and went 2 for 3. She competed, despite all this (bad weather) that's going on. I'm proud of her. She's a competitor.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

Kenny Tang

Despite the rise, there was consolidation and profit-taking after an eight-day surge.

Alan Greenspan

Despite the rise in oil prices through mid-August, inflation and inflation expectations have eased in recent months,

Alberto Ramos

Despite the recent pickup, total investment spending in the economy is still lower than the level of 2001 and, as a share of GDP...below the 1997-2000 average.

Barbara Jordan

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

Brad Pitt

You make yourself what you are. You have control of your own destiny.

Bryant H. McGill

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

Coco Chanel

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

Daniel Quinn

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Anita Loos

I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

Thomas Merton

Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.

John Breaux

San Francisco sits on an earthquake fault, ... So do you say: Move 'em all out of there?

Christine Gregoire

The viaduct is our levees, ... The earthquake is our hurricane.

Jan Schakowsky

There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

David Schwartz

A tremendous job was done after the 1906 earthquake in making the observations of everything that really occurred. We are still using that report today as a fundamental source of material about what earthquakes do, and how to respond.

Sonny Bono

It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like an earthquake or a fire or an accident.

Frederick Douglass

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

Christine Gregoire

These are our levees. And the earthquake is our hurricane.

Richard Flanagan

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

E. B. White

I've seen a guy reeling in a giant tarpon on a Stella. The reel literally glows.

Jim Calhoun

These are two giant tests. I told our guys at a team meeting that we're 22-1 and 9-1, but we still have more tests. We've got to keep proving it and proving it.

Margaret Spellings

This is a temporary situation (and) it's going to be narrowly focused, ... This is not the time to promote a giant national voucher program.

Patrick Craven

Each year on this day we remember and pay tribute to this much loved working-class hero and giant of the national liberation.

John Bunting

As I said to the team, that's one giant M.O. -missed opportunity,

Ed Rendell

Twenty to 25 years ago, Pennsylvania was the industrial giant of this country.

Josh Franco

Today, Mike Giant is no secret to anyone.

Susan Rosenberg

There's something very special about Doris. She is very soft-spoken, but she's a giant of a person.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Astro Teller

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

John Hudson

realize the great things that are happening in Jefferson County, and specifically at Atherton High School.

Darren Shan

Reading has always been the great love of my life.

AnnaSophia Robb

Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom.

Dan Kallaugher

Princeton did a great job capitalizing on the mistakes we made and that was a big reason why they were able to win.

Howie Hewitt

(Proctor) is 100 percent every pitch, every at bat. He's a great guy to have at the plate in that situation.

Chris Ullman

Privacy issues are of great importance to the president.

David McCandless

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Gerard Kennedy

This is a serious problem that should not be left unchecked,

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

David Moorcroft

Essentially, what she left on the table at the TSX, they're making up for it here.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Glenn Smith

People thought he was messing with Mark White. It embarrasses the governor.

Michael McLaughlin

(Dell) is positioned in a market that is rapidly going to grow.

John Patrick

The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Mark Goodstein

These are all different approaches, but the market really has to validate them. ... If it's hydrogen, great. How many sales are you going to get?

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Alfred Kugel

You really have a two-tier market with tech stocks going down and everything else going up. Part of this is because valuations in technology stocks got overdone this year and, at the same time, the Dow hadn't performed and now they look cheap.

Arthur Cashin

What the market would like to see is some sign of bottoming and that the market is reacting positively to the past six cuts. The market is heavily oversold and we have a real coiled spring here just waiting for a release.

Billy Bob Thornton

Marketing is the devil.

Dennis Kucinich

the United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq.

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Steffen Schmidt

There are moments when people have to realize their credibility, which is the only thing politicians have, is hurt.

Livia Landry

There are moments when I am so distraught, I can't function.

David Arner

There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to our water.

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Brennan Manning

God is loving us - you and me - this moment, just as we are and not as we should be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Eckhart Tolle

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Burton Richter

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Aimee Mullins

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Janet Napolitano

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.