Quotes On Rise And Fall Of Civilizations

#1. The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.

Joseph Campbell

#2. Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

Ingmar Bergman

#3. Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts.

Paul Smith

#4. I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

Ann Druyan

#5. When I first began to learn to sing ... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

Heber J. Grant

#6. Someone who might-who did understand what it was like to be crippled at your very core, someone who was still climbing inch by inch out of that abyss.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. Isabella with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

Cassandra Clare

#8. If you can't live it down, might as well live it up.

Brantley Gilbert

#9. If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.

Ralph Caplan

#10. He'd watched the world change around him, civilizations rise and fall, and although he could have anything, anyone, he wanted her.

Lisa Kessler

#11. So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

Charles Bukowski

#12. Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Ron Suskind

#13. Here was enough transcendentalism to drive even a cave-dwelling Tibetan holy man insane. Jack Sawyer was everywhere; Jack Sawyer was everything.

Stephen King

#14. Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

Spider Robinson

#15. One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.

Satya Nadella