Meticulousness Mean Quotes & Sayings

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth. — George Mikes

More importantly, one could make the opposite argument to Leithart and Grant--that if good is guaranteed to win, then goodness becomes merely a means to an end rather than an end unto itself. — Joseph Laycock

Girlfriend isn't enough to describe you, Tate. That term is disposable. You're not my girlfriend, my girl, or my woman. You're. Just. Mine, — Penelope Douglas

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly. — Bill Williams

A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully. — Ken Follett

My heart had healed with the balm of another, love blossoming, love renewed, reunited in the arms of the first man who'd treasured it, and treasured it still. — J.B. Hartnett

Why do all the men I know put their shoes on incredibly slowly? When I tie my shoelaces I can do it standing, and I'm out the door in about ten seconds. (Or, more often, I don't even tie my shoelaces. I slip my feet into my sneakers and tighten the laces in the car.) But with men, if they are putting on any kind of shoe (sneaker, Vans, dress shoe), it will take twenty times as long as when a woman does it. It has come to the point where if I know I'm leaving a house with a man, I can factor in a bathroom visit or a phone call or both, and when I'm done, he'll almost be done tying his shoes. There's a certain meticulousness that I notice with all guys when they put their shoes on. First of all, they sit down. I mean, they need to sit down to do it. Right there, it signals, "I'm going to be here for a while. Let's get settled in." I can put on a pair of hiking boots that have not even been laced yet while talking on my cell phone, without even leaning on a wall. — Mindy Kaling

To be the best you must be able to handle the worst. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The sparrow still falls. — Mary Doria Russell

Before he lets me go, he tells me what life looks like. "There's the walk into battle. The battle itself. And the walk away." It's a cycle we repeat. Every day. Sometimes it's over small stuff. Sometimes it's life and death. — Suzanne Phillips

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots. — Lisa Kleypas

I sometimes lie, especially about personal things, because what does it matter? I am a kind of minute commodity, my name is no longer my own. — River Phoenix

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all. — Ramana Maharshi