Courteousness Is Contagious Quotes & Sayings

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we're all so goddamned stupid. — Greg Bear

Love is the piety of the affections. — Theodore Parker

Here's a helpful hint: If you nod, I can't see it. Or head shakes. Or shrugs. Or middle fingers. Or interpretive dances. When I ask you a question, you need to actually speak. — Emma Scott

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. — George Ade

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians. — James Buchan

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families. — Lisa Kleypas

The world's most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. — Marshall Sahlins

What kind of ethical philosophy is it that condemns every child, even before it is born, to inherit the sin of a remote ancestor? Augustine, — Richard Dawkins

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees. — J.R.R. Tolkien

There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today. — Bob Lutz

Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives. — Paul Lieberstein

I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and the writing and the style of acting, and we look at them perhaps in a way to see what we can steal from them, too, to make our own films more modern. — Francois Cluzet

You know perfectly well that if ever you really want to, you can come back to me, he said without the slightest trace of irony and cynicism, and left. — Ama Ata Aidoo

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb