Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

The thorny point Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show Of smooth civility; yet am I inland bred And know some nurture.

Marie Sevigne

. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

Steven Weber

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

Ted Cruz

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

Susan Estrich

I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.

Walter Isaacson

I think the McCain and Lieberman talk about the need for civility in public discourse is right at the core of our mission,

George Vecsey

Some of us love hockey not just for its ferocity and skill but for its underlying code of civility off the ice.

Jay Weatherill

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Richard Lapchick

Whether or not anything happened, just staging an event like that is a problem. They are representatives of their university and schools have an understood code of conduct, and these guys obviously thought they were going to get away with it and thought it wasn't a big deal. That is unacceptable.

Kevin Charles

We're going to expect crowds to comply with our sportsmanship requirements and our code of conduct for spectators.

Dave Gardner

We wrote the first line of code at 11 p.m. Wednesday night,

Patrick Miller

We let up on the dress code a little during homecoming week for those special theme days, ... They know our focus even this week will still be on education. The tests don't stop just because it's homecoming.

Jennifer Kerns

At issue is the source code that is located on the memory card.

Michael Sutton

It seems like there is some flaky code in portions of the libraries that handle the WMF files. It wouldn't surprise me if we see more vulnerabilities emerge, which I am sure will be followed by more media coverage.

Claire Gastanaga

A lot of people here are saying we're doing to this to send a message to Washington. That's not the right way to handle it. You don't pass legislation and put stuff in the Virginia Code to send a message to Washington.

Michael Cusumano

They did the right thing in deciding that the Longhorn code was a tangled, hopeless mess, and starting over. But Vista is still an enormous, complex structure.

Dave Roberts

It's not necessarily that the open source software never has security incidents. It's that there are far more people to deal with incidents. In the proprietary world, you're hoping really that the code never gets out into hackers' hands. It's really security by obscurity.

Charles Dickens

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Charles Caleb Colton

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Charles Caleb Colton

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Dickens

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you...

Charles Dickens

Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

Charles Dickens

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora. I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphorically speaking, to drown anybody in; and yet there would have remained enough within me, and all over me, to pervade my entire existence.

Edward Gibbon

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

Arne Jacobsen

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

Antony Sher

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Charlie Munger

Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.

Bill Walton

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

Bill Watterson

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

Carl Icahn

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Mark Bradford

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Todd Williams

It's something within his joint, most probably the cartilage, and it could be something underlying from the old injury.

Edward Miller

They want to use it, but it can't be put out there. It's going to be an underlying part of the campaign.

John Bradshaw

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.