Quotes of: Civilized-world Keyword

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Blankets

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....

Brave New World Revisited

In the business world, there is no gray. Either you are black, or you are white-washed.

Business Doctors: Management Consulting Gone Wild

...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...

The Blazing World and Other Writings

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera

MMA fighters are said to be some of the best athletes in the world. My plan at the age of 47 is to show the world I am still one of the best athletes as well.

Herschel Walker

I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

Dennis Eckersley

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Emily Carr

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Edward Sapir

Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.

Linda Lavin

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

Robert Musil

I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

Cobi Jones

I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Brian Eno

A canon is antithetical to everything the New York art world has been about for the past 40 years, during which we went from being the center of the art world to being one of many centers.

Jerry Saltz

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Yo Mama’s so old, her memory is in black and white.

155 World's Funniest YO MAMA Jokes

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War