Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brin

Every marvel of our age arose out of the critical give and take of an open society. No other civilization ever managed to incorporate this crucial innovation, weaving it into daily life. And if you disagree with this... say so!

David Brooks

If I had to fault President [Barack] Obama, I would say that sometimes governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.

August Bebel

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

August Bebel

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have always fraternally united to exploit the people.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Antonio Tabucchi

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Dian Fossey

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Dennis Miller

They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-science fiction channel. Of course, to make room for these they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of Civilization Channel.

Al Gore

Unless we stop dumping 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, which we are doing right now ... the continued acceleration of this pollution would destroy the future of human civilization.

Terry J. Lundgren

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

Allen Benson

We're giving credence to these because we referred them to Inspectors General of Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior,

Shawn Campbell

We're looking at ... the impact of all the consolidation in the department store sector.

Dave Zagorac

Lighting shines on all the hatches. The Police Department drives by all the time.

Kate Reardon

Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century. TSA - thousands standing around.

Stephen Cambone

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

John Searles

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

Ranjit Singh

No one seems to know for sure how much is raised and how the money is used. Not the IRB, not the ROS neither any government department nor agency.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Deepika Padukone

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

and City

Like any member of the family, they managed to ignore the faults.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it totally. It has no value. That is nonsense.

Parry Aftab

Most spammers will ignore the state laws, as they have all others.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Dave Davis

Matt's idea, as it is with all injuries, was to ignore it and it would go away.

Michael Specter

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Bertrand Russell

Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press.

Bob Brewer

I don't think you can completely ignore that.

John Edward

Ignore the polls. They're wrong all the time.

George Segal

I suspect that Helen and I are still together because of this unspoken acknowledgment that I needed this lively mental life.

Cindy LaPorte

It is going to be a lively musical afternoon.

David Brooks

It has a reputation as a very lively place with good, lively students.

Helen Rowland

Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.

Dee Hock

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

Charles Dance

Power is always a corrupting influence. In this mythical time - let's call it medieval, feudal - people in power are dictatorial and don't want their positions of power to be threatened.

Francesco Rutelli

Let those who won be put in the position to govern.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Gordon Absher

We've taken a position of maintaining a confidentiality on the project out of respect for the Singapore government.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

What we did when we took the position was to make a statement and we made a statement.

Nick Saban

We have a sense of urgency about trying to get him ready, but we're not going to rush him and put him in a position where it's not going to be something he can have success at.

Elio Rupo

We have a position which is one of analysis.

Kenenisa Bekele

My getting to this position is something that doesnt completely surprise me at this point,

David Duchovny

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

David Brin

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and many others have done. Choose the miracle of creative competition over an idolatry of cash. They should stand up..

David Brin

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

Benedict Cumberbatch

If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.

Barry Diller

We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

Arne Duncan

The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.

Arnold Palmer

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

Denis Leary

I don't want a president like me! I suck, okay. I want an elitist, smart guy.

Denis Leary

I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."

David Vitter

Ronald Reagans vision of smaller government, less taxes, and a strong national defense has led to a prosperous America. As president, he rebuilt our military and reinvigorated our confidence in ourselves.

David Rockefeller

Everything is in place - after 500 years - to build a true 'new world' in the Western Hemisphere... And what happens if we don't pass NAFTA? I truly don't think that 'criminal' would be too strong a word for rejecting NAFTA.

David Hoffman

I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.

David Hockney

Water in swimming pools changes its look more than in any other form its colour can be man-made and its dancing rhythms reflect not only the sky but, because of its transparency, the depth of the water as well. If the water surface is almost still and there is a strong sun, then dancing lines with the colours of the spectrum appear everywhere.

David Hume

But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and a fear, that all their gold and silver may be leaving them. This seems to me, almost in every case, a groundless apprehension; and I should as soon dread, that all our springs and rivers should be exhausted, as that money should abandon a kingdom where there are people and industry.

David Hume

It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors.

David Hume

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be at all within the reach of human capacity, it is certain it must lie very deep and abstruse: and to hope we shall arrive at it without pains, while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains, must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous. I pretend to no such advantage in the philosophy I am going to unfold, and would esteem it a strong presumption against it, were it so very easy and obvious.

David Hume

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

David Hume

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time

Dave Barry

The porpoises said hello to Molly. She told them all her teeth were green.

Edna O'Brien

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Janet Frame

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Charles Spurgeon

The most effective sermons are those which make opposers of the Gospel bite their lips and gnash their teeth.

Antonia Thomas

Id love to get my teeth into Shakespeare.

Akbar Rafsanjani

Why try to untie a knot with your teeth if you can do it with your hands?

Stephen Jay Gould

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

Thomas Fuller

Better a tooth out than always aching.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Alexander McQueen

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition