Ofcivilization Quotes & Sayings

What a glorious thing it is for us to have the privilege of going to the temple for our own blessings. Then after going to the temple for our own blessings, what a glorious privilege to do the work for those who have gone on before us. — Howard W. Hunter

Loneliness is the inevitable cost of looking after ourselves. — Adam Phillips

I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am. — Mario Cuomo

Simple really," I said. "The heart does not grow back. — Fred Venturini

The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period. — Brian Aldiss

I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold. — Immortal Technique

We have to make decisions, and we can't make them if they're based on fear. — Madeleine L'Engle

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech. — William Shakespeare

Now he was the minister and she the sinner, an arrangement she did not particularly enjoy. — Gregory Maguire

Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach. — Charles F. Glassman

Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle! Tom's going on ahead candles for to kindle. Down west sinks the Sun: soon you will be groping. When the night-shadows fall, then the door will open, Out of the window-panes light will twinkle yellow. Fear no alder black! Heed no hoary willow! Fear neither root nor bough! Tom goes on before you. Hey now! merry dol! We'll be waiting for you! — J.R.R. Tolkien

When relationships don't work out, it doesn't mean you're a bad person, it just means you weren't meant to be together. — Tracy McMillan

You can go to hell
I'm going to Texas. — Davy Crockett

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it. — Tina Turner

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others. — David Lloyd George

The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis. — Edwidge Danticat