Supine Quotes

#1. No one around me was doing anything, even making conversation. They were all just perfectly inert, laid out prone or supine as if submitting to autopsy or dissection. Only the dead or the lowest of species can bask, I'm convinced.

Joshua Cohen

#2. Gould carried the art of bending over backward to positively supine lengths. Why shouldn't we comment on God, as scientists? ... A universe with a creative superintendent would be a very different kind of universe from one without. Why is that not a scientific matter?

Richard Dawkins

#3. Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

Eldridge Cleaver

#5. The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

John Milton

#7. God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.

Anne Bronte

#8. I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

William Faulkner

#9. Only once did Lori glimpse such an entity, supine on a mattress in the corner of its boudoir. It was naked, corpulent and sexless, its sagging body a motley of dark, oily skin and larval eruptions that seeped phosphorescence, soaking its simple bed.

Clive Barker

#10. Wow! She's hot." Morrison commented while gaping lewdly at the body lying supine on the bed.
Insensitive asshole. I took a deep breath to calm my rising anger. "She's dead agent Morrison. I assure you she's very cold." I rebuked sharply.

P.A. Lupton

#11. It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")

Cornell Woolrich

#12. Lucas's position was supine: that is, whenever he heard people arguing about it, he wanted to lie down and take a nap.

John Sandford

#13. Black people live their whole lives in a fantasy world, it's just not their fantasy.

Michael Chabon

#14. I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.

Georgia May Jagger

#15. I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

Frankie Valli

#16. Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Abu Bakr

#17. So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births.

Katherine Paterson

#18. Forget happiness; I would rather be drunk with love.

Debasish Mridha

#19. The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

Lord Chesterfield

#20. It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

Edward Norton

#21. If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.

Robert Dallek

#22. Eternal nothingness is okay if you are dressed for it.

David Krumholtz

#23. In a nutshell, we are shocked by cybercrime, but also expect to be shocked by it because we expect it to be there, but - confusingly - we appear to be shocked if we are not shocked (if we don't find it)!

David S. Wall