Civilizzation Quotes & Sayings

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. — Glen Duncan

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week. — Basil Hume

USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it's totally safe. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

The dreamers always seem to think their dream is worth the price that other people will pay. They also delude themselves that they will control whatever evil they use to try to bring about their dream. — Orson Scott Card

A civilized woman's demands: A man who will (1) make her come ... sometimes; but (2) pay the bills ... at all times. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She'd been in math classes with Quentin since they were ten years old, and anything he could do she could do just as well, backward and in high heels if necessary. — Lev Grossman

We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever. — Elton John

I see two options,' said Damon. 'Running or fleeing.'

'They're the same thing.'

'Fleeing's more ... dramatic. — Gary Meehan

It is essential to the sanity of mankind that each one should think the other crazy - a condition with which the cynicism of human nature so cordially complies, one could wish it were a concurrence upon a subject more noble. — Emily Dickinson

Sleeping is the most difficult part of what I do, relaxing afterwards. Letting things go. — Madonna Ciccone

Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; — Richard Dawkins

As many have pointed out, it has often seemed in the past half-century or so as if the institutional Church cared more for atheists, modernists, and every type of non-Catholic than for her own faithful children who want to believe what has always been believed and want to live as holy men and women have always strived to live, "in the world but not of it." One — Peter Kwasniewski

I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."
-GLaDOS, Portal 2 trailer — Valve