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.

Jim Compton

She has an incredible work ethic. She has become this sort of historical conscience of the council,

Winston Churchill

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Yancey Little

She's one of those girls that when she's on, you better watch out. She doesn't have much of a conscience when she's shooting like that.

James Freeman Clarke

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Marian Edelman

The planned execution of Mr. Williams will leave a permanent scar on the conscience of the state of Georgia, on your administration and on our nation.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Johannes Heesters

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.

Arthur Koestler

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

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.

David Korten

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

David Korten

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

Jane Addams

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Alan Greenspan

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

Chris Cleave

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Christie

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

Barbara Hepworth

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

Ashley Montagu

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Ari Fleischer

Obviously, he's not ruling it out... he's saying whatever it took.

Eric Blake

We're not ruling out anything at this point. It's just something to watch.

Zingisa Mkabile

He is an embarrassment to the ruling party.

Ralph Miller

At this point, we're not ruling anything out,

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.

Elizabeth Bibesco

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

Per Petterson

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

Michelle Green

There are a lot of things you can be doing with your kids. We want them to write sentences by the end of kindergarten.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Pete Wentz

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Colleen Hoover

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Connie Mack

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

Maximilian Schell

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

John Wilhelm

Strikes are always a possibility. But we are not a strike-happy union. I look at strikes as a failure.

John Hedgecoth

We think that this strikes the right balance.

Clint Hurdle

He really struggled to throw any strikes (on the third-base side) of the plate,

Matt Magee

He throws a lot of strikes and that's all we ask.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

Author unknown

Worrying works! 90% of the things I worry about never happen.

David Thomas

Worrying about anything but A&M right now is just foolish.

Armando Iannucci

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

Aaron Brooks

So I don't have concerns, but we can't be worrying about that.

Michelle Gomez

I bring so much of myself to each character that there's always a worrying point when I think: 'Oh no, I'm really that person.'

Peter Kinder

You can't be worrying about everything all at once,

Carly Simon

Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.

Paul Freeman

It's frustrating. It's exciting. It's nerve-wracking, ... It's worrying about those who are down there.