Rules Of Civility Quotes

#1. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Just being ourselves is the biggest fear of humans.

Miguel Ruiz

#2. Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#3. The rules from those who are politically correct restrict what you can say to or about anything in our daily life. They tell you what to call others and what others can call you.

John Patrick Hickey

#4. [T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

Orson Scott Card

#5. I'm doing exactly what I was supposed to do. Yeah. I didn't exactly choose this. My own life, if it were up to me, would be very, very quiet. I'd be like a shopkeeper, a book collector, or something like that. I'm not like this. Myself as a performer and an artist is totally different from who I am.

Mos Def

#6. Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

Eli Roth

#7. That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to.

Amor Towles

#8. Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking

Albert Einstein

#9. It strikes me as horribly ironic that you apparently need a Fairy Godmother to properly manage your courtship of a Fairy Godmother.

Jenniffer Wardell

#10. Losers break the rules. There's no point in obeying them because if you obey the unwritten rules of civility, you're going to lose anyway. So why not just do what you can?' - Zachary Karabell

David Pietrusza

#11. We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.

Antanas Mockus

#12. Keep looking. Don't settle

Steve Jobs

#13. There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

Michael Caine

#14. Astonish me! (Instruction to photographers)

Alexey Brodovitch