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

• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Pleasure
  • Trouble
  • Complicated

• 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

• Don't 'just do it.' First, plan it, then do it.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Firsts
  • Gratitude
  • Plans

• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Power
  • Thing
  • Great Talent

• When I started, we had just the camera and the person, mostly. And if you wanted to do a dolly shot, particularly working in Chicago where I began, you'd get in the back trunk of a car, and you'd have a friend drive the car, or you'd get in some kid's little wagon that he plays with and have someone pull that for dolly shots.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Car
  • Chicago
  • Camera

• I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Political

• 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