Civilized Quote by Orson Scott Card Download Open image “Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?” — Orson Scott Card ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized Mean Waiting Want What you want
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
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
Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary. — Ursula Parrott 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
deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon 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
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an… — William Matthews 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
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Why did he hesitate? He finally admitted to himself that he was like an American child who was almost completely certain about Santa Claus,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“I don't know of a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones they believe they believe; and the ones… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“The devil?” Jason heaved the tick over his shoulder like a collier with his sack. “Satan. The adversary. The enemy of the plan of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be. — Orson Scott Card 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
Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home — Joseph Anderson 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
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