Uncourteous Quotes & Sayings

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results — Nigel Crouch

The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past. — Susan Sontag

The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence - 'This account of you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Absence makes the loins grow hotter. — Richard Castle

Rampant eclecticism is my middle name. — Linda Ronstadt

We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade. — Virginia Woolf

Washington, D.C., with its wide streets, confounding roundabouts, marble statues, Doric columns, and domes, is supposed to feel like ancient Rome (that is, if the streets of ancient Rome were lined with homeless black people, bomb-sniffing dogs, tour buses, and cherry blossoms). — Paul Beatty

And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over.
-Rose — Amy Tan

It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs — Arthur Conan Doyle

Twitter is currently valued at $8 billion, or $1 for every hour it has wasted. — Andy Borowitz

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed
at his own speed. — Jack Gilbert