Politenessness Quotes

#1. Allowing Marcus to lead her back to the Toyota, she glanced over her shoulder at Kerrie. "You - if you come near us again, I'll make you choke on your own ovaries. And I'll enjoy it. What's more, I'll make you enjoy it. Just sayin'.

Suzanne Wright

#2. Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.

Toni Morrison

#3. I might be weary or stupid; I might be nauseous with drink; I might be sore, at the hips, with the ache of my monthlies, but the opening of this box, as I have said, never ceased to stir me - I was like a dog twitching and slavering to hear his mistress call out Bone!

Sarah Waters

#4. Image promises much but produces litte. Integrity, however, never disappoints. For me, integrity means living it myself before leading others to live it.

Phil Pringle

#5. Your LinkedIn profile should leave no room for doubt about the kind of job you're looking for and why you're the best person for that position.

Melanie Pinola

#6. Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

Klaus H. Carl

#7. No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Bryant McGill

#8. I felt a strange sensation inside. Like the past coming to life. The watery stirring of a previous life turning in my belly, creating a tide that rose in my veins and sent cool wavelets to lap at my temples. The ghastly excitement of it.

Diane Setterfield

#9. her life was already so fraught with unpleasantnesses that she'd adopted the strategy of delaying encounters with them as long as possible, even when the delay made it likely that they would be even more unpleasant when she did encounter them.

Jonathan Franzen

#10. Be careful! Never show your superiors that you are superior to them.

Paulo Coelho

#11. For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.

William Pfaff

#12. People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.

Daniel Kahneman

#13. If i can only recount
the story of my life
right out of my body
flames will grow

Rumi