Reaves Utility Quotes & Sayings

Tenderness is the repose of passion. — Joseph Joubert

Australia is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have coups, recklessly overfish, arm disagreeable despots, grow coca in provocative quantities, or throw its weight around in a brash and unseemly manner. It is stable and peaceful and good. It doesn't need watching, and so we don't. But I will tell you this: the loss is entirely ours. — Bill Bryson

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way. — Rachel Hunter

I know just how slimy people can be, and how people like that are during the daytime. They don't get slimy at night because they're drunk, they get slimy because they're already slimy to begin with. I — Banana Yoshimoto

Sometimes people simply believe the things because it's easier that way. But it doesn't make it the truth. — Mandy Hubbard

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago. — Julian Barnes

But what are wishes, compared with longings? — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Here's the most startling irony I know in film history: Antonioni, who is often denigrated by left-wing critics as a formalist and aesthete gives us radical realism through the long take, and what he gives us
this is his metaphysical wager
is real outside the film, off the set, beyond the camera and underneath the surface of everyday life. — Frank Lentricchia

Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins

They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm Tally Youngblood. Make me pretty. -Tally Youngblood — Scott Westerfeld