Carroll Quigley Quotes

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

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• I am a very complicated person.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Person
  • Complicated

• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • America
  • Band
  • Firsts

• I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Firsts

• The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Cooking
  • Civilization

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Trying
  • Firsts

• If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Firsts
  • Ifs
  • Views

• Everybody blows their first money.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Money
  • Firsts
  • Blow

• The First Month of the Buhari Presidency has been far, far from inspiring

  

  Okechukwu Ndibe
  • Firsts
  • Months
  • Presidency

• I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Proud
  • Firsts
  • Mumbai

• I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Morning

• I believe that Western civilization, after some disgusting glitches, has become almost civilized. I believe it is our first duty to protect that civilization. I believe it is our second duty to improve it. I believe it is our third duty to extend it if we can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Civilization
  • Glitches

• It takes more time to rework a painting than it takes to fill in the canvas in the first place. I wish I could get them all right with the first coat like many of the old masters could, but seem destined to have to rework to make them even passable.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Painting

• Practical dreamers have always been and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Always
  • Civilization
  • Dreamers

• And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

  

  Adolf Galland
  • Lost
  • Firsts
  • Flight

• Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Sometimes
  • Firsts

• When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Deep
  • Parent
  • Influence

• You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to defend it, protect it,and keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground, the way the Roman Legions did - by putting your soldiers in the mud.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Life
  • May
  • Desire

• My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

  

  Hafez Nazeri
  • Music
  • Father
  • Poetry

• If your not honest with yourself, how the hell are you gonna be honest with me.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Honest
  • Hell

• Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to rub shoulders with them. The ability to feel as if you have met someone, as if that person exists in flesh and blood and that you relate to them somehow, makes you feel a lot less lonely. And it also makes you feel very brave.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• We all should know what the Right's agenda is here: privatize education, kill public schools, and transfer the teaching of the young to private entities.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Education
  • Teaching
  • Agenda

• I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

  

  Erich Leinsdorf
  • Help
  • Prepared
  • Cuba

• A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Firsts
  • Civilization
  • Complicated