#z

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. ↗

— Norodom Sihanouk

#asia #called #cambodia #capacity #east

Art is the signature of civilizations. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#civilizations #signature

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#civilization #culture #found #group #living

I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue. ↗

— David Simon

#emphasize #how #i #journalism #lying

America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be. ↗

— A.A. Gill

#americans #civilization #civilizations #change

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#been #hip-hop #ideas #locked #mostly

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.' ↗

— Phil Simms

#because #check #coaches #criticize #facts

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#civilization #conquest #development #law #march

The older a wizard grows, the more silent he becomes, like a woody vine growing over time to choke a garden path, deep and full of moss and snakes, running everywhere, impenetrable. ↗

— F.T. McKinstry

#gardens #power #silence #snakes #wizards

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. ↗

— Neil Simon

#count #dollars #going #hundred #rest