Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

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.

Bill Reynolds

There are a lot of Civil War guys around that nobody knows where they're buried.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Sue Monk Kidd

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Charles Sumner

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

Don McClure

We've still had some issues with people trying to drive around the barricades. VDOT and the sheriff's office have been helpful in dealing with those issues.

Abby Ottenhoff

We've seen great success at Sheridan in dealing with drug offenders and hope that we will be able to replicate that success.

Mary Meeker

The reality here is we're dealing with a market environment that was overheated.

Susanna Kearsley

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Theodore Schultz

Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

Ellen McLaughlin

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.

Tom Fontana

We did not go in and pitch a show about accounting. And so the nature of the show is, we're dealing with sexuality.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Peter Hill

We have no hesitation at all in writing about those things. The readers are massively concerned. We get so many letters. We get massive, massive response to these issues, an enormous response.

Octavia E. Butler

I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Howard Rubenstein

The Post has enormous respect for the Asian-American community.

Liza Minnelli

I was given an enormous amount of love by my parents.

Gary Strickler

We're graduating Gabe, and that's an enormous number of points to lose off a team, and we don't have his equivalent in junior high or in the freshman or sophomore classes.

Nick Harkaway

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.

Norman Ornstein

Let's face it. When you're the governor of New York and even mentioned as a presidential candidate, you're going to be under an enormous microscope.

Michael Morse

made an enormous mistake in my life: I took steroids while in the minor leagues.

Larry Birns

Rice has an enormous task to repair the present disarray in which we find U.S.-Latin American relations.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Charles de Montesquieu

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Ann Freeman

There is no sound for a moment, no breathing. And then a muffled scream, like she has pressed something to her mouth.

Mark Amdahl

Waubay is the only team we never full-court pressed this year. Otherwise, we get teams to have 25 to 30 turnovers.

Rena Sofer

For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.

William McArthur

It's not the pristine world that you see on Star Trek, where you see the neatly pressed uniforms, ... What we have is perhaps, from a storage and organization standpoint, is well-managed chaos.

Pamela Holloway

They pressed us very well. We just didn't keep our composure.

Diane Setterfield

Tragedy alters everything.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

Jane Smiley

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.