Unfailingly Courteous Quotes & Sayings

One observer estimated that in 1901 Texas alone had eight hundred million prairie dogs.4 Jack rabbits were nearly as numerous. Antelope and deer numbered in the millions, as did the wolves and coyotes, and there were thousands of elk, bear, and other game. — Stephen E. Ambrose

The censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people. — James Madison

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday. — Jesse Plemons

I had older brothers who would pick on me, and injustice always boiled my blood. — Michelle Rodriguez

As an actor, the minute you start getting real in interviews, you lose mystery. — Shia Labeouf

Taxation according to income is the most effective instrument yet devised to obtain just contribution from those best able to bear it and to avoid placing onerous burdens upon the mass of our people. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

His gaze kept sliding in my direction, then zipping back to Phil, as if he'd heard you should make eye contact with people you're talking to but had never actually seen it done. — J.L. Merrow

There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics. — Morgan Saylor

He just . . . Nick just wanted to be special. He wanted to be Luke, with a destiny. He wanted to be Frodo, with a quest. He wanted to be an unlikely hero and do something that mattered, but there are no quests in the real world, where everything is much bigger and more tangled and complex than in the stories he loves. In the real world, small people don't get to be heroes, and Nick is the smallest person he knows. — Lisa Henry

My wife is possessive and I like that — Fawad Afzal Khan

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error. — Norman Geisler

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I love to cook. I'd have a dinner party, and someone would be like, 'Can you do this at my house?' So my catering partner and I - we were both struggling actresses at the time - thought, instead of getting a waitressing job, let's do what we love. We always said if things pick up, our acting careers come first. — Meta Golding

No man can lose what he never had. — Izaak Walton

Comedy, such a lovely lady, she'll pick you up, you your feeling blue. — Adam Sandler