Top 1200 Civil Engineer Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.

For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by things large and small. I wanted to know what made my watch tick, my radio play, and my house stand. I wanted to know who invented the bottle cap and who designed the bridge. I guess from early on I wanted to be an engineer.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.

We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.

You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

Civil wars are the greatest of evils. They are inevitable, if we wish to reward merit, for all will say that they are meritorious.

In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort.

I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.

As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

For me, while writing I am an engineer, so if I decide to change the format, I want to add a section, to move a section, reorganize the section, anything I want to do, I just boot words, and I do what I want to do. So, I feel completely empowered when I'm a writer.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

One needs to follow strict discipline in the life to streamline it, so it's not whether you are in this industry/profession of an actor or an engineer or whatever you are doing it, but I think when you respect your body, when you take care of your body, I think everything falls in place.

I feel like if you sit down and have an assistant engineer and a producer in a top-notch studio and everyone sets up all the mikes perfect, all of a sudden it's really hard to live that melancholy song. It's hard to really live it in the moment.

Islamic extremism is the prime enemy of civil society and social peace, both in Italy and in Israel.

I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.

A lot of people are concerned about, for example, the ability of big government to inhibit our liberties and choice. Big data can engineer a situation that limits our choice and our freedom. And it's not a partisan issue.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

I was a flight engineer on my second flight, which is the most senior position a non-American can have aboard the shuttle. We're the cockpit crew. We fly the vehicle up to space, dock the vehicle to the space station, undock it at the end of the mission, and return it to the ground.

People only believe what they discover for themselves. We need to have civil discussions, and look at what the facts and the truth are.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.

As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came in; ask him to make something that will massacre Germans, and he turns into Thomas "Fscking" Edison.

When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

One of the many important roles of the Department of Justice is to represent the United States in civil and criminal trials.

First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.

To someone like Zurbaran, who paints still lifes, lemons and pears are the objects of art. But to the electronics engineer who works on the technologies of virtual reality, the whole reality has become the object of art, with a possibility to substitute the virtual with the real.

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.

When an engineer has built a bridge, the fact that a cat can pass over the bridge is no proof that the bridge is good. A train must pass over it to prove its strength.

For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.