Civilly Quotes

#1. It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.

Amitai Etzioni

#2. Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ without quarrelling, to say what you have to say civilly and then to listen civilly to another speaker.

Katherine Anne Porter

#3. I get along very well with Paul Ryan personally. We have very deep differences on policy issues. But we express them civilly.

Chris Van Hollen

#4. It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way ... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

Paul Bloom

#5. He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

Quintus Ennius

#6. The man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor.

Geraldine Brooks

#7. Let's go kick some ass.
Civilly.

Becca Ritchie

#8. Engagement provides opportunities to demonstrate how confrontation can be done both effectively and civilly

Gregory S. Prince Jr.

#9. Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

Eleanor Catton

#11. The Revolution put an end to prostitution by giving women what they wanted: a job and a room of their own. (1983: 61)

Maxine Hong Kingston

#12. It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.

Kevin Costner

#13. And now here I am, suddenly, after all these years, home. I am not exactly the black sheep of my family, but it is not like I am grazing in pastels. Getting

George Hodgman

#14. The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

Stephen Ambrose

#15. I lay under Luke, pretty certain I was going to die and wishing I'd made a will. Now, my sisters and mother were going to get all Aunt Ella's money. I should have left it to Sissy and a cat shelter.

Kristen Ashley

#16. Never have so many recordings of the great Masses and motets been in wider circulation.

Richard Morris

#17. In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos.

Deepak Chopra

#18. Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!

Bill Henson

#19. It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

Washington Irving

#20. Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#21. Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Thomas Jefferson

#22. People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.

Greg Maddux

#23. If I think about it too much, I can't get dressed.

Daphne Guinness