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civilization luxury selfishness
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. Charles Caleb Colton
civilization saws ends
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? Alan Bennett
civilization solitude going-out
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
civilization doubt moral
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.
civilization stuff jingles
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 Mitchell
civilization creating alternatives
It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization. David Graeber
civilization climate-change humans
More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. David Suzuki
civilization age generations
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese
civilization savages fragility
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. Camille Paglia
interesting challenges trying
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience. Alan Rickman
interesting acting process
What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.
interesting enemy brain
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death. Alan Bradley
interesting interviews want
I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part. Al Pacino
interesting waiting groups
I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole. Childe Hassam
interesting challenges important
The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system. David Minge
interesting people perfect
The most interesting people are never perfect. David McCullough
interesting people notes
It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest. David Korten
interesting problem
Every problem that is interesting is also soluble. David Deutsch
salt popcorn cooks
I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt. Beverly Johnson
salt
Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas? Rudyard Kipling
salt enough ifs
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure. Art Spiegelman
salt
We shouldn't be doing that. We should be on our own system. But what can you do? The wells got salt in them. David Johnson
salt path bread
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. Dante Alighieri
salt gamer grain
When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with. Curt Schilling
salt refinement expenses
A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense. Lord Byron
salt worth
Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem' James Castle
salt tear water
You see some of these big homes; they look OK, ... But they've been soaking in salt water for two weeks. They're gone. They'll tear them down. Harry Reid