Civilizational Studies Quotes & Sayings

The origins of graph theory are humble, even frivolous. — Norman L. Biggs

Even if you're popular, there are times when you just feel like you're not a part of things. — Patton Oswalt

My philosophy is 'learn while you live.' 'LazyTown' is about balance. I'm not there yet. — Magnus Scheving

Okay, lesson on Tate and music. If fans do anything less than carve the band's name into their skin, then the band isn't worth listening to. Any music that involves more than jumping around and banging your head is about as exciting as Kenny G to her. — Penelope Douglas

When someone offends me, I think it's a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility. — Ibn Taymiyyah

Although God allows the world to use His great wealth in order that their physical and material needs be met, it is not God's will for the devil's children to control all the money that is in the world. — Paul Silway

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past. — Matthew Fox

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman. — Grant Morrison

I don't mind being stereotyped as angry - it's good to have a job. — Peter Capaldi

But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost in a dream when he said, "So, your dad broke into the patent office."
"Yep," Kat told him.
"How many goats am I going to owe him for that?"
"More than you've got, big guy. Way more than you've got. — Ally Carter

She may have mentally relegated him to the friend zone, but the rest of her hadn't gotten the memo — Christine Bell

For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things you cannot choke in blood. — Albert Camus

Life is endless reality. There is reality after reality, spinning on endlessly into the cosmos, billions and billions of manifest universes. Underlying all of this is the unmanifest, the absolute reality. — Frederick Lenz