Naif Quotes & Sayings

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business. — Peter Drucker

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. — Murray Banks

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, yadda yadda yadda. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Katherine, who tried so hard in London to be best friends with Virginia Woolf, who hated her, because Katherine was the kind of naif-imbecile that the literary men adored and championed at her expense. — Chris Kraus

To look for a meaning in anything is less the act of a naif than of a masochist. — Emil Cioran

Do you ever have those random nights where your brain won't shut off, even though your body feels like five hundred pounds off exhausted? — Becky Albertalli

Naif felt his tentacle caress her again, This time, though, he was holding something as well. It was rough hessian and the smell from it was putrid, like something dead a few days. She tried to push him away but his tentacle ws strong and persistent, not withdrawing until he'd wiped the cloth over her. — Marianne De Pierres

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time. — A. Lee Martinez

Close friends, or those in my pay, sometimes call me a literary polymath, while others say that I'm just a shallow dilettante, superficial and breezy, with a faux-naif style. — Michael Dirda

That, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster ... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. — J. Lincoln Fenn

Kero and Rollo stood over it, slick with blood, both holding knives.
'Kero, you came? Why?' asked Naif.
'Maybe I just needed someone to show me how to be brave enough,' he replied with a hint of a dangerous grin. — Marianne De Pierres

I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now ... it mutates the vibe and even the meaning of the same words when you have a different spirit, if the person singing is different. I like that, to be able to sing an emotionally wrought song from a more centered place, or to sing an eager, youthful song from a more experienced place. It kind of colors the songs differently, and it keeps them fresh. — Ani DiFranco

Randy wondered if the coupling of a lonely divorcee and a garden naif would constitute the punchline to some cosmic lesson, if their amoral actions would embody for future generations the baser instincts of humankind. His head spun. His stomach turned. His loins sighed in mollification." -Mark Doyon, "Green Grow the Azaleas — Mark Doyon

We need to make growth greener, to make our economic and environmental policies more compatible and even mutually-reinforcing. This is not just a matter of new technologies or new sources of renewable, safe energy. It is about how we all behave every day of our lives, what we eat, what we drink, what we recycle, re-use, repair, how we produce and how we consume — Jose Angel Gurria

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission. — Lenny Bruce