Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.

Alan Rudolph

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

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.

Bill Reynolds

There are a lot of Civil War guys around that nobody knows where they're buried.

Kemal Saiki

There is a limit on our resources and the priorities we have are protecting civilians and supporting the transitional process.

Sue Monk Kidd

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Duleep Mendis

We have to give the players back the confidence because we are approaching the World Cup (in early 2007).

Jim Tufts

We have to get our confidence up and used to the puck.

Chad Ambuehl

We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep gaining confidence in ourselves, we could win a regional. That's been the goal since day one, and nothing has changed.

Craig Craft

We have some confidence that we can go in and do something (at the tournament). If we can get our game on the floor, we'll have a good chance.

Pierre Littbarski

We have some confidence from the last game in Sydney but they (Adelaide) are 10 to 15% stronger at home in Adelaide.

Russ Crist

We have so many talented guards and we wait to see who?s going to step up on any given night. Tonight was Kristin?s night. She did everything well. ... She played with confidence and that?s something we need out of her.

Mike McKinney

Whenever we are running it, we were successful at it. It gave them more confidence for the next time we did it.

Mike Kitchen

When he first came, his play was OK and then it's dropped off of late. I think he's lost his confidence a little bit. He's got to shoot more. He's got to go to the net and be a little more greedy with the puck.

Jody Rhodes

We wanted to try to get back on the right track and get some confidence early.

Brent Weeks

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Kirk Talley

The one thing we don't want to do is embarrass anybody.

Brian May

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about

Justin Blalock

We're not here to embarrass anybody. The games you should win you have to win big. That's part of the deal.

Bess Truman

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

Dennis Prager

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

Elizabeth Bowen

nobody ever dies of an indignity.

Ray Moore

I don't want people to think this is a sleazy place. I'm not going to embarrass Liberty. I don't want a strip club, and you have my word that's not going to happen.

Donna Cassidy

I didn't really want to go but I didn't want to embarrass him in front of his friends. We had a really great time.

Carl Andre

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

Charlotte Bronte

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

Charlotte Bronte

I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.

Myles Brand

We have resolved all differences. We found a way to go forward. This is a significant agreement.

Bill Taylor

The process has been reviewed, and it's been found to be safe.

Kyle Waters

We used to send out material before school started but we've found that just being visible gets the word out.

Tony Goldwyn

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tim Tebow

When your identity is found in Christ, your identity never changes. You are always a child of God.

David Selby

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Tom Murphy

We're concentrating on hazardous reduction in the interface.

Tina Brown

Was it always so hazardous for women in the public eye?. . . . When a woman is the subject the vortex of venom reaches a spinning climax.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Auto emission is hazardous and has to be controlled.

Hans Jonas

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

Frances Beinecke

Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.

John Stewart

We then made sure that the remnants of the RPG were no longer hazardous to the ship or the passengers,

Charlie Gill

It can be hazardous going out on a test drive, even if you do get a driver's license.

Michael Hernandez

Fortunately right now, McAllen has no hazardous materials passing through.

Laurie Garrett

We can see hazards approaching and we have time to actually do something.

C. S. Lewis

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

Chris Young

We have no alternative now but to seek justice in the courts.

Robert Davis

When, exactly, did the American justice system become a competitive team sport?

Alan Lomax

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Charles Sumner

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

Susan B. Anthony

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Diane Watson

Justice deferred is justice denied.

David Ruggles

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Jeff Mitchell

We want it to stay the way it is, natural. We want it to be open to the public.

Emery Wallace

We were trying to set up for a 3, but that wasn't open so I went to the basket. I thought I had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

There are still too many people out there who are claustrophobic. On easyCruise, we are going to open up as many cabins as we can.

Daniel Barber

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Kara Walker

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

William Griffin

We started slowly. We got some open looks, but they just weren't falling.

Lyle Kessler

As for Philadelphia, you know what it is like? Sink holes. You stand in the earth and it opens up and you're sucked down. I'm never going to escape Philadelphia.

Eckhart Tolle

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

Rick Peterson

This puts him on track to open all our options.

Lindsey Graham

We have polar opposite views on a lot of things,

Don Bluth

In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line.

David Sedaris

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

David R. Brower

People have alleged that I have inspired many young people over the years, but I say, it was just the opposite.

Bryan Callen

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.

Bryan Stevenson

The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

Chad Harbach

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite.

Jane Austen

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.

Alan Watts

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Cesare Lombroso

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Cherrie Moraga

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Fred Mitchell

Our role is to smooth the passage of Bahamians wherever they go in the world,

Jean Fontaine

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean Fontaine

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Bible Bible

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

Randy Pausch

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

Joyce Johnson

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Carlos Castaneda

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

Carlos Castaneda

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

Alan Thicke

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Alan Light

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

Brian Cox

Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

Brian Cox

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

Bret Michaels

I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

Bret Easton Ellis

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

Brandi Carlile

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

C. S. Lewis

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

C. S. Lewis

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

C. S. Lewis

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

C. S. Lewis

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.

Alan Sugar

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.

Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality.

Charlie Chaplin

You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside.

Charles de Gaulle

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.