Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Jane Moscowitz

She's very distressed to see her reputation taken away.

Yoshinori Katori

Japan fully understands the distress felt by the Muslims at the publication of the caricatures.

Mark Latham

Greg had a marriage break-up and some troubles, an incident that was made public and was in a very distressed state, suffering depression,

George Harrison

Peach has never been a pushover, but this classically styled game really lets her put the hurt on her enemies. Our damsel in distress has become a powerful leading lady.

Sufjan Stevens

I still feel like I have a lot to learn in the realm of sound experimentation, and I think I would like things to get noisier and weirder and more distressed and more aggressive, but I don't know if that's something that would be suitable for public consumption.

Peter Gardner

I would be a little distressed should it be only one. I think...the world's operators are going to probably persuade Boeing that more than one is better. Whether three is required, I'm not sure.

Margaret MacDonald

Now there is distress of nations, with perplexity, the seas and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear.

Charles de Montesquieu

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Wilbur Ross

We are looking at many of these distressed (auto parts companies) that have some kind of proprietary technology and some scale of size.

Sofia Boutella

Working with Madonna, she always told me the meaning behind the steps and why I was doing these steps - she treated us like actors. So I feel like I've always been an actor, truly.

Scott Andreassi

She was treated no differently than any other individual.

Marc Bulger

We treated this like a regular-season game. Whether they did or not, who knows?

John Macdonald

We treated this (bar) just like any other licensee.

John Timoney

He's being treated for a gunshot wound to the head,

Gwendoline Christie

My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.

Jill Carroll

I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped.

Cass Sunstein

Rehnquist really was treated unfairly, ... A person is a career, not a moment.

Phil Fontaine

We can't be treated as secondary. We can't be an after-thought,