Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Alan Bennett

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Graeber

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Suzuki

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Cesare Pavese

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

Camille Paglia

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Bruno Tonioli

A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.

Edith Wharton

The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

Gretchen Rubin

In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.

Bill Johnson

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

Brian Gionta

Whenever there's a ceremony like that, if you're home or away, you always have to be careful not to get too stale. But it sparked a lot of emotion, and that kept us going. It felt like a playoff atmosphere out there.

Brad Richards

When you score two goals one game and one goal the next and you get four points, that's great because we weren't getting (points) when we were scoring three and four. It's huge and this is going to get everybody's confidence going. We need to pull out games like this and then atmosphere is a little bit better in the workplace, you know?

Bill Laswell

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Bill Watterson

Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.

Mark Eaton

We remember the great atmosphere here, how inspiring the fans were. This is why you play. This is the best time in the year. Being able to start at home makes it that much better.

Dusty Springfield

I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!

David Bellamy

They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.

Ivar Giaever

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

Jon Stewart

Here's the thing about global warming that I didn't realize: it would all happen at once.

Paul Krugman

The planet will continue to cook.

Noam Chomsky

Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming.

Nick Minchin

I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

Margaret Thatcher

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.

Kerry Emanuel

It is tempting to ascribe Katrina, Rita and now Wilma to global warming effects, but I am not sure that would pass statistical muster.