Cility Quotes & Sayings

Sandalwood, tagara, lotus, jasmine - the fragrance of virtue is unrivalled by such kinds of perfume. — Gautama Buddha

How we see the world changes all the time. It all depends on our mood. — Sarah Addison Allen

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be. — Justin Smith

Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe. — Ka Chinery

The terrain of the mysteries is the ordinary. To seek out mystery, we don't have to go anywhere. We must simply change our preception, our description, our consciousness of where we are. — Starhawk

She put a cigarette in her mouth and lit it, tasting the familiar taste of nicotine, smoke, and impending lung cancer. It felt good. She — Mike Omer

Documents create a paper reality we call proof. — Mason Cooley

Three fires is the international distress signal. — Joe Teti

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. — Katharine Graham

Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly — Rick Riordan

Legally, Moosbrugger's case could be summed up in-a sentence. He
was one of those borderline cases in law and forensic medicine
known even to the layman as a case of diminished responsibility.
These unfortunates typically suffer not only substandard health
but also have a substandard disease, Nature has a peculiar prefer-
ence for producing such people in droves. Natura non fecit saltus,
she makes no jumps but prefers gradual transitions; even on the
grand scale she keeps the world in a transitional state between imbe-
cility and sanity. — Robert Musil

I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach. — Lisa Snowdon

My affair with Trudy isn't going well. I thought I could take her love for granted. But I've heard biologists debating at dawn. Pregnant mothers must fight the tenants of their wombs. Nature, a mother herself, ordains a struggle for resources that may be needed to nurture my future sibling rivals. My health derives from Trudy, but she must preserve herself against me. So why would she worry about my feelings? If it's in her interests and those of some unconceived squit that I should be undernourished, why trouble herself if a tryst with my uncle upsets me? — Ian McEwan

In all the years we spend together, I never once regretted the fact that I had chosen her and that she had chosen me as well. — Nicholas Sparks

So much affirmation ends up sounding like a murder of crows passing overhead and it is easy to be afraid of murder-by-crow-- though sometimes you have to start flapping your arms and follow them. — Lucia Perillo