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.

Brooke Warrick

We were trying to characterize the lens through which people see the world. A community is a collection of symbols and images. And we wanted our symbols and images to be better than the other guy's.

Tony Davis

We found quite a collection of debris in there -- worms, frogs, salamanders and granular calcium, which resembles white sand, at the bottom,

Barton Gellman

U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.

Jim Angell

We're getting a collection of Irish and Scottish music going, which is fun and it really gets people stomping their feet. They're not so much singing along, unless they know the words and then they get started.

Leon Redbone

I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens.

Chris Taylor

The expectations are very high that the collection will come back in good condition. Some may be returned in even better condition.

David Parks

We were confident from the outset that this terrific collection would produce phenomenal results at auction. The sale was incredibly exciting and I'm delighted that all 45 lots in the collection have found new homes.

Donald Ray Pollock

'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.

Neil Gray

It is a traffic management device. It is done to expedite traffic. It is expensive to put in an electronic toll collection system.

Alonzo Mourning

We know we have to improve defensively to be a contender down the stretch. I just hope we don't run out of time.

Hans Mosesmann

The perceived impact of the delay may be the real issue to contend with for (chip) stocks in the near-term.

Steve McKinney

We were supposed to be contending for a playoff spot right now. Instead, we're contending for the No. 1 pick in the draft. Our fans are kind of frothing at the mouth over it.

Robert Brown

Let's contend no more, Love, / Strive nor weep: / All be as before, Love, / - Only sleep!

Brent Mitchell

For State, we have some very high seeds and hopefully they can contend for the win.

Jose Lima

If we were a contender for the division, it would be a different story. But sometimes you just can't wait until this is over, and start all over again.

Tim Marshall

If we are going to contend in the conference, we will have to win our home matches.

Mike Dunphy

I think we'll be competitive. We'll contend for first place in the league.

Ian Roper

I think we'll be a contender in our conference.

Charlie Daniels

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Charles Tupper

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Taylor

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Charles Sumner

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

Charles Sumner

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles E. Wilson

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

Cesc Fabregas

Best defender I have played against? Carles Puyol

Deb Bennett

She's that quiet force on a team. Her presence never shows up in statistics as much as we felt it on the court. I think she was one of the top defenders in the state.

Diane Tuller

She's a team player. She goes for everything and puts it all out on the floor. I hate to take her off the court, but we have some strong defenders and we have to play to our strengths.

Bryan Mullins

If I was open, I would have shot it. I was trying to draw defenders so I could kick it out, and Randal made himself open for me.

Jesse Cormier

I think you're going to see a lot of defenders back-pedaling when Lee's got the ball. He's an exciting player.

Kiki Vandeweghe

We are extremely pleased to have Greg back. He is one of our toughest defenders and played a key role for us last year.

Jim MacDonald

He can really get to the hoop. He extends himself so well, and he does a great job of getting defenders off balance.

Alan Cook

He likes to dribble a lot, ... so I told our defenders to just stay on his back, don't let him turn. Make him play the drop ball, and they did a good job of doing that.

Kevin Klette

Our forwards were out of position and our defenders were in the middle of the ice and we got beat. It wasn't pretty.

Rob Mackowiak

We've all failed in different ways and, now, it's up to us. Obviously, the organization is looking to move into a better direction, so this should be a sign. We need to improve. All Mac could do was prepare us. He couldn't play for us. I wouldn't wish what happened to him on anybody, but you can't fire all of us.

Jeffrey Robinson

Where they failed was in what to do with this huge bulk.

Dick Cheney

What we're hearing from the other side is the failed thinking of the past, and we're not going back.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Kent Houser

We failed to run our offense in the third quarter. For the rest of the game, I think we played at our pace. We didn't want to slow it down too much, just have some discipline.

Tom Marryott

We failed to match American's intensity as the game went on.

Ken Bruen

I was a failed actor, but for 25 years, I got to go on stage anyway, and I loved it. I've still got the day job, and the travel bug.

John Greene

Many of my traditional supporters, especially in the business, women's rights and gun-owner communities, have failed to step forward to help me as they have in the past. Many have simply written-off the governor's race and ceded it to the incumbent.

Marco Basten

Some moments we played well but overall we struggled with our opponents because we failed to raise the pace.

Thomas Gould

We're going to identify students who have the potential to succeed at selective universities.

Tom Waits

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Lars Kreckel

The only trend you can really identify at the moment is that things seem to be M&A driven.

Aaron Stern

Kids live vicariously through the lyrics. They identify with them, feel like these are their stories. They listen to what you have to say and know if you're lying.

George Herbert Mead

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

David Allen

Our primary role is to identify intellectual property that is disclosed to us by (researchers), patent protect and commercialize it,

Tom Shaheen

Our staff has been working very late trying to identify any possible situation.

Uri Dan

I wore the tie to identify with the pain of the uprooted,

Patrick Thompson

Researchers identify turtles by the different patterns on the turtle's shell. It is like a fingerprint - different on every one.

Charles de Montesquieu

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

Dianne Feinstein

It is abundantly clear that a total review of all intelligence programs is necessary so that members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are fully informed as to what is actually being carried out by the intelligence community.

Dianne Feinstein

I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible.

Dianne Feinstein

There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

Edward Snowden

I grew up with the understanding that the world I lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with each other in privacy, without it being monitored, without it being measured or analyzed or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems, any time they mention anything that travels across public lines.

Edward Snowden

All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.

Edward Snowden

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

Edward Snowden

We need the security standards to apply to the internet. We need to be able to trust that when we send our emails through Verizon, that Verizon isn't sharing with the NSA, that Verizon isn't sharing them with the FBI or German intelligence or French intelligence or Russian intelligence or Chinese intelligence.

Edward Snowden

These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power.

Edward Snowden

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Joe Solmonese

It certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she's more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping.

Ann Coulter

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Helen Suzman

I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true.

Aberjhani

Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Alan Perlis

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

David Kay

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

David Deutsch

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

David Deutsch

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Sandy Williams

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

Nathan Myhrvold

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

Arthur C. Clarke

God said, 'Cancel Program GENESIS.' The universe ceased to exist.

Josh Matthews

We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.

Dick Van Dyke

I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.

Kian Egan

When we started off the band, we started it more as a vocal group,

Dolly Parton

He did do a vocal just for me that I'll keep for myself and that I'll always treasure,

Sofia Carson

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

Dan Hicks

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

Timothy Simons

I'm very much in favor of vaccinations, and I've been very vocal about that because it's insane to forgo this.

Jessica Mauboy

I've always looked up to Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey for their outstanding vocal performances. I've always been inspired by them.