In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.
Henry James Sumner Maine
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.
World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.
The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
Seamus Heaney
A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.
Theodore Zeldin
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
Entire civilisation stands on submission and obedience of mother.
If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.
I would never do anything just for spite.
Justin Timberlake
I danced with passion to spite the music.
Gelsey Kirkland
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Robert E. Howard
In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
Chin-Ning Chu
Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
Lying is the rule, not the exception.
Pamela Meyer
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton
Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.
Linda Sue Park
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Most actresses are always running late - I'm no exception.
Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
I'm a civilian, a citizen.
David Remnick
I'm a citizen of the world.
Don Lemon
I am a citizen of the world.
Pim Fortuyn
I am a citizen of the world.
Abbas Kiarostami
I am a citizen of the world.
I'm just a citizen of the world.
I am still an Indonesian citizen.
Great books are rare.
Ian Hacking
Left Eye is a a rare gem.
Missy Elliott
I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Good writers are of necessity rare.
George Henry Lewes
It's very rare that I put makeup on.
Honest communication is a rare thing.
It's so rare, actors who are not vain.
Circumstantial evidence is evidence.
Bernard Goldberg
Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
Aleister Crowley
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel Johnson
Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
My music is evidence of my soul's will to live.
I'd love to do a Western.
Duncan Jones
I'd love to do a Western.
Clive Owen
I'd like to be in a Western.
John Cho
Western man is schizophrenic.
J. B. Priestley
I always wanted to do a Western.
I've always loved a good Western.
I never really did a western western.
I love Europe.
Mia Wasikowska
Europe can be saved.
Viktor Orban
Europe is a miracle.
Hillary Clinton
I loved Europe so much.
Robin Wright
I love going over to Europe.
Europe has been in my bones.
My family's from Eastern Europe.
Art is difficult.
Scott Thompson
All men are difficult.
Sharon Gless
Writing is a difficult thing.
Scott Thompson
Being alone is very difficult.
Yoko Ono
Success is difficult to define.
The Swiss can be very difficult.
The job as a coach is difficult.
Art is truth.
Warren Beatty
Tell the truth.
Ian Hunter
Humility is truth.
Desiderius Erasmus
Truth will prevail.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Truth is a tendency.
Truth is what works.
Seek truth from facts.
I'm a history nut.
Billy Joel
History is history.
Troy Vincent
I'm part of history.
Alex Rodriguez
History's a resource.
Laura Linney
History is not hatred.
I am a fan of history.
Freedom has no history.
Music is my home.
Jennifer Hudson
Home is New York.
Liev Schreiber
I love coming home.
Freddie Freeman
I was home-schooled.
Hailee Steinfeld
New York is my home.
L.A.'s been my home.
New York is our home.
I like the world.
Pharrell Williams
We are the world.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
It's an odd world.
Timothy Spall
I'm 'of the world'.
Hugo Weaving
Cats rule the world.
The world is a mess.
Girls run the world.