Acting Civil Quotes

#1. Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you're trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil.

Jennifer Silverwood

#2. Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

Francis Quarles

#3. It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.

David Soul

#4. She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same.

Jenny Han

#5. I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.

Nicola Sturgeon

#6. We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.

Boris Johnson

#7. Surely by now you must know: It's love; it's love - but will there ever be good news? ...

John Geddes

#8. The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. Family: a safe place to commit crimes. - K Yearwood

Kathleen Yearwood

#10. It is this process of symbolization which, in certain hasheesh states, gives every tree and house, every pebble and leaf, every footprint, feature, and gesture, a significance beyond mere matter or form, which possesses an inconceivable force of tortures or of happiness.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

#11. What we thrive on is hatred and violence; if we were a peaceable people we would have peace tomorrow.

Henry Miller

#12. What you learn from others you can use to follow.
What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

Richard Hamming

#13. ...too-muchness had no doubt been noticed at school, for it was around this time that I received a school report that said, 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far.

Oliver Sacks