Reticences Quotes & Sayings

The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer foots the bill. — H.L. Mencken

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity. — Ambrose Bierce

The American people don't really care what side of an issue you're on. They just don't want you to act like a pussy. — Bill Maher

Yet Anthony knew that there were days when they hurt each other purposely - taking almost a delight in the thrust. Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved by any consideration of their love or anything he could say. Often he would eventually trace these portentous reticences to some physical discomfort - of these she never complained until they were over - or to some carelessness or presumption in him, or to an unsatisfactory dish at dinner, but even then the means by which she created the infinite distances she spread about herself were a mystery, buried somewhere back in those twenty-two years of unwavering pride. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Confidence does not come out of coincidence. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The aristocrats had to force them to do their jobs. After all, human beings are not badgers. We aren't molded to stoop. — Andrew Rimas Evan D.G. Fraser

I think sometimes we are reckless with our hearts the way we are with our lives. When we give them away, we give every piece. And if we do not get what we so desperately need, how do we live? — Cassandra Clare

Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking. — Agatha Christie

I'm not sure I ever even liked Tal, much less loved him, and by the way, Tal, I believe the Palestinians should have their own state. — Rachel Cohn

Sometimes life makes us to kneel down dreadfully without knowing that man can make much better plans especially in the Land of Defeat to stand up again with an irresistible power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Pec-tacle?
You know, like spectacle but with more dude nipples. — Chloe Neill

Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not without some intervention of the taste buds. Hearing also has its role, alert to your gasps and your trills. It is not only the body that is, in you, the object of raeding: the body matters insofar as it is part of a complex of elaborate elements, not all visible and not all present, but manifested in visible and present events: the clouding of your eyes, your laughing, the words you speak, your way of gathering and spreading your hair, your initiatives and your reticences, and all the signs that are on the frontier between you and usage and habits and memory and prehistory and fashion, all codes, all the poor alphabets by which one human being believes at certain moments that he is reading another human being. — Italo Calvino

Reticences are as revealing as avowals. — Elizabeth Bibesco

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ... — Laura Ingalls Wilder

I'll never forget a meeting with one publisher where they said, 'We don't publish books for teenage boys; teenage boys don't read.' — Darren Shan

I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties. — Gary Oldman