Civilising Quotes

#1. Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

John Charles Polanyi

#2. I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.

Jimmy Nail

#3. Well, it certainly is for men, because large numbers of men living together can easily become like wild animals. Men are brutes at heart, and without the civilising influence of women they quickly revert to savagery.

Jennifer Worth

#4. Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Damon Galgut

#5. Cheerfulness without humour is a very trying thing.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process.

Antoniette Costa

#7. For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord's timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.

Sheri L. Dew

#8. There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.

Paul Bourget

#9. Chasing after a pleasure to ease a pain is like running after a breeze to cool you down.

Guy Finley

#10. Believe me, You will surely see the light. even if you are in a darkest room though, It will go in through small holes in your room.

Chandra Bobby

#11. Nonetheless the memory of you stayed with me, and I had no doubt whatever whom I ought to cling to, though I knew that I was not yet capable of clinging, because the perishable body weighs down the soul, and its earthly habitation oppresses a mind teeming with thoughts.

Augustine Of Hippo

#12. A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

Donald E. Williams Jr.

#13. I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance

Iris Van Herpen

#14. We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to find what other people need.

Meg Wolitzer