Honorifics Quotes

#1. Honorifics and meaningless ritual phrases of greeting, leave-taking, permission-asking, and false gratitude, please, thank you, you're welcome, goodbye, fossil relics of primitive hypocrisy - all were stumbling blocks to truthfulness between producer-consumers.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. All you are is mean. And a liar. And pathetic. And a liar. And alone in life, and mean.

Taylor Swift

#3. There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#4. I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.

Henry Miller

#5. There is a madness that is joy, and a madness that is just madness.

Marty Rubin

#6. The line separating the real from the imaginary is infinitesimally small. Or is it there at all?

Ben McKinnon

#7. From afar they raise their voices like torches, and they cry out, as from some lofty and conspicuous watchtower, admonishing us where to walk and how to direct the course of our work steadily and safely.

Eusebius

#8. I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.

George Smathers

#9. the term "Land of Israel" was a later Christian and rabbinical invention that was theological, and by no means political in nature. Indeed, we can cautiously posit that the name first appeared in the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew.

Shlomo Sand

#10. The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Agnes Repplier

#11. The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.

Jim Gaffigan