Ilisation Quotes

#1. 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

#2. And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn't learned self-consciousness
knew how to smile.

Alexis Hall

#3. The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

J. Paul Getty

#4. The main thing is to be myself. What I mean by that is, to be honest when called upon to express your feelings. The other thing is - maybe this should come first - to be a good listener. To close your mouth and to listen, and to be able to echo back what your partner says to you.

Michael Franti

#5. Being the evil undead wasn't fun anymore. For one thing, it was increasingly hard to get a library card.

Sharon Ashwood

#6. Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

Stellan Skarsgard

#7. I'm pretty opinionated sometimes although my political views change all the time, too. So I'm not very zealous.

Jay Roach

#8. Boards." He paused. "I saved the worst for last. We can declassify Princess back to plain old Eva Hodges, female, age four,

Stephen King

#9. She experienced a moment of genuine happiness that rocked her and made her quake at the intensity of the feeling. She had a sense of being on the threshold of an entirely new purpose with a vastly different perspective. She

S.K. Epperson

#10. For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

John Steinbeck

#11. All that any of us has to do in this world is his simple duty

Henry Clay Trumbull

#12. There is more potential for economic growth in rural America than at any time in decades.

Tom Vilsack

#13. They did the whole lingering gaze thing, following it with the glancing-away, smiling-knowingly routine. She felt vivacious, a feeling she remembered, she was enjoying the self-confidence, the larkiness.

Freya North

#14. Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Stern men with empires in their brains.

James Russell Lowell

#16. I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.

Heather O'Rourke