Civilizd Quotes & Sayings

So you think we can be friends?" Elle asked. "No jealousy? No awkwardness?"
"Jealousy is a sign of insecurity. He adores me," Juliette said. — Tiffany Reisz

Not that a locked door made a difference to me, since we'd all been rigorously trained in "the ladylike arts of breaking and entering, — Daniel O'Malley

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership. — Anne M. Mulcahy

I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do. — Helen Mirren

I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about. — Shannon Hale

Matthew needs Jesus to come out of Egypt for the same reason he needs him to be born in Bethlehem: to fulfill the scattered prophecies left behind by his ancestors for him and his fellow Jews to decipher, to place Jesus in the footsteps of the kings and prophets who came before him, and, most of all, to answer the challenge made by Jesus's detractors that this simple peasant who died without fulfilling the single most important of the messianic prophecies - the restoration of Israel - was in fact the anointed one. — Reza Aslan

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I never wanted to be run of the mill. — Barbara Jordan

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets. — Joel Kinnaman

Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck. — Hilary Mantel

I do so think well of a man who dies with finesse. — Michael Crichton

The only works of man in heaven are the marks of the cross on Jesus' body. — David Servant