Civiller Quotes & Sayings

true acting out is an expression of intense underlying affects without conscious awareness of them, not just another undesirable and difficult patient behavior — James A. Chu

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you? — Cole Porter

As love increases, prudence diminishes. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

All decisions are different in hindsight. Maybe all we can do is make the best decisions we can in the moment, using the best information we have right then. — Miranda Kenneally

I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you what you should believe. You know, you have to believe what I believe, and I don't believe that. — Sinead O'Connor

...human behavior is fragile and unpredictable and often at the mercy of the situation. Every individual still, of course, has a choice as to how to behave, it's just that for many people the situation is the key determinate in that choice. — Laurence Rees

Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling 'garrn' under his breath, while chewing on a frazzled looking toothpick. Skooch threw down a five of reds and said nothing. There was an impatient pause as the players waited for Beck to remember he had to play for Peeping William, who was still grumbling softly and rolling his eyes at intervals. — Christina Engela

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols. — Gustave Flaubert

All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past. We can watch the passage of creatures from the infinity of now, from all the worlds like ours, only fractionally different. And we follow them with our eyes, ghost things, and the humans see nothing. — Neil Gaiman

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.' — Anna Quindlen

The absence of a focal enemy, which is what the Cold War had provided; the complexity of the developments that are occurring that mean that the world is just extremely complicated - lots of different and competing stories and strands; the continuing reality of megaterrorism; and the dysfunctionality of our politics that has neglected the foundations of the U.S. role in the world; have altogether left us somewhat confused. — Graham T. Allison

Strike up our drums! Pursue the scatter'd stray.
God, and not we, hath safely fought to day. — William Shakespeare

When we 'lose ourselves' in play, we find something greater--the nameless, formless, and mysterious essence of all creation. — Victor Shamas