Civilizing Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? — Janis Joplin

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down. — Norman Vincent Peale

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him. — Cleobulus

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners. — Francoise Giroud

I love you," I said. "God, I never thought this would happen to me."
"But it did," she whispered. "It happened and all we can do now is take care of each other. Live in the little moments, right? Just like we promised. The little moments. We have so many. Thousands upon thousands. — Emma Scott

There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking. — Marty Rubin

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me. — Gary Oldman

The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy. — George Orwell

When deeds speak, words are nothing. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those of the kitchen. I think it, on the contrary, among the most useful of sciences, and big with future discoveries for the utility and safety of the human race. — Thomas Jefferson