The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of… — R. M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling… — Mencius Copy Share Image
It has been my experience as a teacher over the years and incarnations that what really counts are not techniques. What really… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Eutrapelia . "A happy and gracious flexibility," Pericles calls this quality of the Athenians...lucidity of thought, clearness and propriety of language, freedom… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
...many of us inhibit our capacity for growth because the culture encourages us to live lives of uniformity. We stall, deny, ignore… — Joan Anderson Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would… — Gerald Jonas Copy Share Image
The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government,… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is… — Randy Shilts Copy Share Image
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