Civilization 2 Advisors Quotes & Sayings

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own ... — Rainer Maria Rilke

He who despises most things will be a law-giver among them. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality. — Gail Sheehy

Of all types of birds, birds of prey have always fascinated people. — Jim Knight

The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal. — Sheldon Lee Glashow

I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me. — Al Kooper

Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall. — Nancy Byrd Turner

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy. — Erica Bauermeister

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t? — Quentin Crisp

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction. — Saul Bellow

I was never my favourite subject. — Lauren Bacall

When you are in your heart, nothing needs to be done to bring change ... It will happen automatically and with grace. — Drunvalo Melchizedek

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself. — Soren Kierkegaard

Stop destroying the landscape with your outfit. — Rick Owens