Civilization The Andrews Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't give me displeasure to hear of a virgin being raped. The lot of women is to be fornicated. — L. Ron Hubbard

Only death rescues us from dying. — Mason Cooley

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. — Robert Andrews Millikan

Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing. — George Clooney

The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me. — R.C. Sproul Jr.

He cut right through the layers of civilization, politeness, and social snobbery to some preternatural female sense that said, "Dominant male. Danger. Power. Sex." Why — Ilona Andrews

As I walked back to civilization, I realized that for the first time in the six months I had known Curran, we had managed to have a conversation and part ways without wanting to kill each other. I found that fact deeply troubling. — Ilona Andrews

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. — Livy

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket ... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us. — Eamon Duffy

Ivan Lankowski," said Petra. "The name I'd like to hear is the name of the one who sent you." "One's superior officer is never named. It is a basic rule of security." Petra sighed. "I suppose this proves I'm not in Kansas anymore." "I don't believe," said Lankowski, "that you have ever been in Kansas, Mrs. Delphiki." "It was a reference to - " "I have seen The Wizard of Oz," said Lankowski. "I am, after all, an educated man. And ... I have been in Kansas. — Orson Scott Card

But when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree. — Elizabeth Gaskell

I hate that he can see straight through the walls I put up. — Alexandra Moody

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. — Jimmy Buffett

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful. — Jill Scott

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business. — David Milne

Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms. — Allan Bloom

Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it. — George Blake