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.

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.

Heidi Libby

We knew they were going to collapse on our post players. We just tried to find good looks, and they happened to be from the outside.

Shatha Atiya

When he first gets off the plane, I'm going to hug him. Then I'm going to collapse for a few hours, and then we're going to sit down for a long discussion about the consequences.

Granth Sahib

There is no other as Great as the Guru. I have come and collapsed in the Guru's Sanctuary. In His Kindness, He has united me with God.

James Wolfensohn

Unless a solution is found, we may be facing the financial collapse of the PA within two weeks.

Bob Hunter

We've taken more water out of the system than the environment can sustain, ... As a result, we have degraded habitat and a lake that's near collapse and a river that's very unhealthy.

Niki Caro

The real case, as you probably know, went for over 20 years. We had to collapse the time frame just for dramatic purposes.

Alan Stern

Some models say the collapse can be very sudden. It can happen in a matter of months.

Derek Johnson

She collapsed at school and was taken to the hospital, ... That's how we found out she had asthma. It hit us by surprise.

Jen Warden

We tried to collapse on her and push out of the paint.

James Yonts

We also shift our tactics, we also shift our intelligence and our operational forces to combat the enemies.

H. Hunt

Working together as a community is the greatest thing we can do to combat these crimes. Even if we double the law enforcement officers that we have today, we still can't have officers on every corner of the street.

Doug Schreiber

Through our first five games, we have seen four or five possible All-Americans. Our defense has been playing OK, but we need to tighten up some things so we can combat the other team's pitching.

Jayanti Owens

Through its two-fold focus, the conference first encourages participants to critically reflect on theoretical ideas about institutionalized discrimination in higher education is and how it is perpetuated today. The conference then seeks to provide tools to help students enact policies and programs and found student organizations that combat systems of inequality in higher education.

Thomas Jefferson

Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it

Bruce Gombar

When these guys are over there, they don't have any place to spend their money. And they get combat pay. So when they come back, they are pretty flush.

Ruslan Pukhov

There are lots of women working in the army, lots of construction troops, railway troops, you name it. And the combat troops, well-equipped and well-trained, there are less than 100,000.

Olli Rehn

Significant efforts are needed to effectively combat organized crime and corruption, especially at high level.

Jeff Woods

There is a significant focus on using RFID in pharmaceutical manufacturing because of the FDA's interest in using RFID tags to help combat diverting and counterfeiting.

Ken Burns

We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Rod Bourgeois

We still worry that, at the stock's current valuation, implicit expectations seem somewhat steep relative to the guidance we anticipate.

Kevin Flanagan

We still think the fundamentals will come back and rise from current levels.

Jim Copeland

We're in pretty good shape, considering the current landscape.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

Rob Hartman

We've very fortunate that this current storm system is going to deliver its precipitation north of there.

John Thain

We have to focus on the revenue side, we have to focus on the expense side and make sure we can earn to justify the current market value.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

Charles Caleb Colton

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.

Charles Caleb Colton

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Spurgeon

He who fears God has nothing else to fear.

Alan Paton

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A scared world needs a fearless church.

Chogyam Trungpa

We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.

Chogyam Trungpa

Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

Elana Chase

We know he's good, but sometimes he wins and in others is 16th. He has such a light touch on the rails and is fearless in the air. He is getting better every week.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

Terry Crews

I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say 'No' to parts they should have said 'Yes' to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, 'Maybe you shouldn't do that.' I'll do it all.

Ken Thompson

We're an International truck dealer, sales, parts and service.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Harland Braun

He's being well-treated and he's getting his regular medications . He said it's ... like some of the parts that he's played.

Julie Johnson

Our own rendition of the show is made up of parts of three different scripts of the play.

Erich Merkle

Someone has to make sure Delphi's parts are not interrupted.

O. J. Simpson

I think it will do very well ... As with most compromises, there are parts they like and parts they don't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Daniel H. Wilson

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Tommy Tuberville

It is full-speed tackling, and we want to see them compete. But we're not going to go out there and do a lot of things that's going to get spread around.

Steve McClain

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

Darryl Drake

That comes with time. When you've got a young quarterback, a new quarterback with the system, the more comfortable he gets, the more he'll start spreading it around.

Jane Goodall

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

Rick Sparks

True. I just wish they could spread it out a little more.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Bob Doyle

We want to stand on our two feet.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Boomer Esiason

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.