Civilized Quote by Martha Plimpton Download Open image “I like things that are civilized.” — Martha Plimpton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized. — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything. — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized. — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want? — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott Copy Share Image
I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
It's easier to lecture women on sexual morality than it is to explain why all Americans shouldn't have comprehensive, fair, and equal health care… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I wouldnt say Malkovich is totally insane, but hes not living in the real world. Hes living in his world, which is a fine… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. Where women have access to these services, children and… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image