Boorishness Quotes

#1. That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this
that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

Seneca The Younger

#2. It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

Jean De La Bruyere

#3. Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

Franz Grillparzer

#4. Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

William Mountford

#5. I was born optimistic ... I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

Alice Herz-Sommer

#6. Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.

Uma Thurman

#7. Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.

Peter Singer

#8. Strategy is empty without change, empty without passion, and empty without people willing to confront the void.

Seth Godin

#9. He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.

Wallace Stegner