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.

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.

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.

Robert Gleitz

We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

Robert Smith

There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!

Chris Rudge

There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point.

Dick Marty

There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

Paul Nelson

There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing,

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Harrison Wadsworth

The Perkins program is one of the most efficient ways to use federal resources -- schools partly match federal capital, and all the money is recycled into loans for future generations. Students need Perkins more than ever.

Kathy Shepard

We are proud of our team members who, in a prompt and efficient manner, extinguished the smoke.

Luis von Ahn

Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.

Harry S Truman

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Adrian Smith

When you're used to seeing someone being coldly efficient on court and suddenly they go on stage and into your world - it's fascinating.

Mac Thornberry

We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

Jim Bolla

When we get the ball, we're not as efficient because we're tired and often take the first shot. We're playing into our opponents' hands.

Michael Robinson

We're going to have to play very efficient and mistake-free to be able to hang in there with those guys.

Sean Farnel

We're extremely efficient and we do tremendous things in that shop. We have phenomenal through-put. The output would make it look like it's four or five times its size.

Gordon Woods

We embarked upon this expedition back in 1998, after Dolly, the sheep, was cloned.

Michael Chapman

It's ambitious, but we would never have embarked upon something of this magnitude if the numbers didn't support it.

Abdoulaye Sarr

Today our team did not play like our team should and Ghana were more motivated and that made the difference.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Ghana is like a lion without a head

Bill Gates

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

John Dramani Mahama

Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Jose Mourinho

Would you phone the president of Ghana?

Mahatma Gandhi

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

DaMarcus Beasley

If you are Italy or Czech, you can't take the U.S. or Ghana for granted.

Freddy Adu

I'm very happy.It makes me feel great that Ghana made it. But this is where I play now.

Kwame Nkrumah

The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked-up with the total liberation of the African Continent

Peter Daniels

We're not going to sacrifice a thorough or impartial investigation just to make sure we do it prior to the start of the tournament. But obviously, that's the goal.

Phil Gramm

When this is over, the important thing will be whether we can say that we rendered impartial justice.

Manfred Nowak

It only means that there is need for an impartial and independent investigation.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial

Edward Gibbon

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

Carol Vorderman

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

Lutfi Haziri

We want to resolve the status as soon as possible. Independence is coming.

Charles Evers

I'm for economic independence.

Benjamin Franklin

The States acceded to the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

Alexis de Tocqueville

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

J. Taylor

Man has proved to be a model sponsor and in particular has respected the independence and integrity of the prize.

Brian Tracy

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

John Feehery

We're going to make sure that we do this in a reasonable, rational and responsible way, and that requires us to go through the ... Judiciary Committee.

Tom DeLay

My lawyers tell me that this is so frivolous, so over the top, so embarrassing to the judiciary that we ought to be able to get it out of here quickly,

Russ Feingold

This has not been a legislative process worthy of the Senate. Members of the Judiciary Committee, as I just said, were implored to save their amendments for the floor. Then, when we got here, we were told no amendments could be accepted.

Steve Noyce

I didn't see it well enough to comment. We stay away from judiciary matters.

Lance Lattin

We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.

Kurt Vonnegut

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

Madeleine Albright

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

Randy Simmons

When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.

Rodney Atkins

I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

Diane Sawyer

I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.

Anthony Rapp

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

Bashar al-Assad

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.

Jiggs Thomason

We treat it no differently than a rainout in the middle of the season. We never make up a points race.

Mitt Romney

Let me put it very plainly: If we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.

Mitt Romney

I care about 100 percent of the American people. I want 100 percent of the American people to have a bright and prosperous future.

Robert Ward

It's the little things that make up the richest part of the tapestry of our lives.

Italo Calvino

I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.

Ezra Stiles

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.