Quotes of: Civil-rights-act Keyword

It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.

Jerry Springer

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Jay Weatherill

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Herbert Read

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

Anthony Minghella

I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

Andrew Taylor Still

Lone Watie: [realizes Josey has snuck up behind and pulled a gun on him] They said a man could get rich on reward money if he could kill you. Josey Wales: Seems like you was looking to gain some money here. Lone Watie: Actually, I was looking to gain...

The Outlaw Josey Wales

There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child than to be treated like one. It's so infuriating. It took me the longest time to figure out how to stop falling int...

A Civil Campaign

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

A Civil Campaign

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

A Civil Campaign

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

A Civil Campaign

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

A Civil Campaign

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.

Cary Fukunaga

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.

The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

Les Misérables

The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.

Split... Civility For A Divided Nation

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

Philip Pullman

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Thomas Sowell

The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.

Eduardo Paes