Dying Civilizations Quotes

#1. Democracy is just a false idol - a mere catchword and illusion of inferior classes, visionaries and dying civilizations.

H.P. Lovecraft

#2. Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

Groucho Marx

#3. On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

P. E. Cleator

#4. Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

Terry Pratchett

#5. A lot of women say that they want to get to feeling about themselves the way I feel, because when I'm on a roll, I'm hot, I'm really good. I try to tell them, I don't have a fix.

Delta Burke

#6. I have a needle being stuck into my spine, can anyone please define "a little pain"?

Pandora Poikilos

#7. But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

Anna Benson

#8. Death was in every fibre of these creatures. It was hidden in their languages and at the root of their civilizations. You could hear it in the sounds they made and see it in the way they moved. It darkened their pleasures and lightened their despair.

Andre Alexis

#9. Stannis, my lord, my sad sullen boy, son I never had, you must not do this, don't you know how I have cared for you, lived for you, loved you despite all? Yes, loved you, better than Robert even, or Renly, for you were the one unloved, the one who needed me most.

George R R Martin

#10. In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.

Eric Ambler

#11. When I tell people that I'm vegan, the first question asked is, 'How do you get enough protein?' This immediately tells me that they are uneducated and know little or nothing about nutrition.

Robert Cheeke

#12. Mission statements are long, dull, and forgettable.

Guy Kawasaki

#13. it appears that my bourgeois education inculcated hopelessly false notions of taste and morality, and along with them the pressing need to disseminate them by leadership. By the time I was mature enough to ofer them, society had developed and no longer felt in need of my mildewed fruits.

Elizabeth Mavor

#14. the average American household is in more danger from chemical germ-killers than from germs.

Philip Yancey

#15. I think it's important to find projects that evoke people into conversation. It's like reading a good book. You want to talk about it.

Juno Temple

#16. But the presence of the young woman had touched a lot of people there, and some were ready to rethink their lives.

Paulo Coelho