Civil Fabric Quotes

#1. The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

Charles Dickens

#3. [David Riesman] had made a hobby of studying the American Civil War and he had always been disturbed by the passions which it had unleashed in the country, the tensions and angers just below the surface, the thin fabric of the society which held it all together, so easy to rend.

David Halberstam

#4. The spectacle of people following current custom for lack of will or imagination to do anything else is hardly a new failing.

William H. Whyte

#5. And what about a text message? Isn't that just using a telephone as a telegraph?

Michael Finkel

#6. The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.

Ernest Istook

#7. Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

Warsan Shire

#8. The slightest contact with logic makes all false arguments disintegrate.

Victor Hugo

#9. Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.

George F. Will

#10. I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic.

Jeremy Scahill

#11. Tell God how you feel, and don't be afraid to ask for a miracle.

Shirley Corder

#12. It's a nebulous thing, but it is my belief - my experience also - that women do not have the need to collect that men have.

Deborah Meyler

#13. Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

Stephen King

#14. I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#15. And how do you find the school?" he asks. "Well, seeing as it's always in the same location, it's never very difficult to find.

Kiersten White

#16. The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we're going to take a step back and think about what's most likely to achieve that goal.

Elon Musk

#17. Politics is always driven by competing worries.

George F. Will

#18. Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques. Philip Howard

George F. Will

#19. My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

David Weber

#20. America's experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It's about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

Joe Biden