Civilest Quotes & Sayings

We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black ... — Amy Winehouse

The Plot Against The Giant

First Girl
When this yokel comes maundering,
Whetting his hacker,
I shall run before him,
Diffusing the civilest odors
Out of geraniums and unsmelled flowers.
It will check him.

Second Girl
I shall run before him,
Arching cloths besprinkled with colors
As small as fish-eggs.
The threads
Will abash him.

Third Girl
Oh, la...le pauvre!
I shall run before him,
With a curious puffing.
He will bend his ear then.
I shall whisper
Heavenly labials in a world of gutturals.
It will undo him. — Wallace Stevens

And he does not plant to no purpose. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules. — Daniel Nayeri

Maybe she's helping him because his hands are full," Lydia suggested.
The girl kissed a trace of chocolate from the corner of his mouth.
"Or not. — Diana Peterfreund

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. — Italo Calvino

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it. — Thomas Boston

It takes a long time to wake up. That's why it doesn't happen to people who are in a hurry. — Robin Gregory

I said her name as if I was entering another place, another state where words were warmer, and the things I felt didn't have to be locked away. — C.D. Reiss

For me it was a normality having a father who was a world champion. I grew up with that, so it was never extra pressure. And I've never felt the need to emerge from his shadow. — Nico Rosberg

As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and had pierced eyebrows, tattoos, and zero social status. — Stieg Larsson

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side. — Dani Shapiro

I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships. — John Fowles

It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic. — Louis MacNeice

The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death. — J.R.R. Tolkien