Top 1200 Civil Engineering Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

When you say 'no' and you get on the streets and you do an act of civil disobedience, it changes your psychology.

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well.

The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.

I mean, really, compared to a senior civil servant, I'm very modestly paid!

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.

I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

I know why we lost the Civil War. We must have had the same officials.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

As a college freshman with an on-campus job, I was delivering paperwork to the engineering department one day. There, I encountered two department assistants whose faces lit up with the hope that I was a prospective student. I hadn't come there to enroll, but their reactions piqued my interest.

We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what's leads to a more fulfilling life.

Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.

In any civil society, there's a serious problem when confidence in the rule of law is shaken.

It's hard to do that with people who think emotionally. A lot of people think in terms of people, emotions, and feelings. That's more complicated. Engineering mentality makes it, in theory, a little easier.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man - as a kid, I should say.

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.

'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

I hire people who can do their jobs and who will advise me of things they don't agree with. The worst thing you can do is get in a room with 14 people who say, "OK!" Then you really are making decisions about engineering and finance and other areas.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way.

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.

I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

There is a need to accept a limited disruption of civil liberties in order to penetrate terror.

Space station is, it really is one of the more, if not the most, impressive technological achievement of the modern day, not only in what we've accomplished engineering-wise but what we've accomplished on this international scale, because anybody will tell you that half the challenge is making it all work.

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.

That a country has a strong civil society is, I believe, particularly necessary for good development.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough.