Ilisation Quotes & Sayings

(his house at Stowe, in Buckinghamshire, had nine of the first flush toilets in England), — Bill Bryson

How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies. — Ovid

Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to please this aftermath of the book by knowledge that was more historical and psychological than literary and aesthetical. — Sasa Stanisic

One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me! — Libba Bray

How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It's impossible to defend yourself against inexperience and age. And maybe they're right. Maybe we don't know love like an adult knows love, but we sure as hell feel it. — Colleen Hoover

Not that I don't think you're totally hot when you're dripping with sweat. — Amy Plum

DON'T TALK RELIGION UNLESS YOU PRACTICE ONE — Kunal Narayan Uniyal

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night. — William James

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need for our civ ilisation; but
no such system has a chance while men are so unhappy that mutual extermination
seems to them less dreadful than continued endurance of the light of day — Bertrand Russell

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history. — Bryant McGill