Civilization is a movement - not a condition a voyage - not a harbour.

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

Nico’s anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He’d been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn’t appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.

State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty.

I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

Pink champagne -- that's the kind of life we've both been used to. It might be a little difficult to -- do you like beer?

Victory comes late-- And is held low to freezing lips-- Too rapt with frost To take it

The chi is the central energy or power that we use in physical expression. When the chi is flowing properly in our lives, we can be very adept athletically.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.