Worldbuilder Civ Quotes & Sayings

And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that's my opinion, expressed as politely as possible. — David Gaider

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film. — Abraham Zapruder

The sight of Elgie flat on the slimy dock, groaning "My wife, my wife", with a gun pointed at him, and me jumping up and down, was even enough for a German to take pity. — Maria Semple

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. — Jean Harris

Babies, they learn how to walk and they are already trying to run away. You can't reach the doorknob, you only know us, think it through. — Jim Gaffigan

For the first time Vishal had understood what success truly meant. It came at a cost. It came at the expense of others' failure. It did not necessarily merit one's integrity, passion or zeal. It did not worry about the method either. It could not be swapped, lent or borrowed. It was a lonelier place. Smile to a mere few at expense of several heartbreaks. Yet if success was that important, he needed to value it. Life is cruel.

- Beginning with a Comma, Ch 10 — Amrit Sinha

I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people. — Alexander Ludwig

Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here? — Harlan Coben

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. — Haruki Murakami

They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history. — Milan Kundera

I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way. — Liam Gallagher