Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever…

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.

— Harriet Martineau

Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short order to…

— Simon Schama

Better too much form than too little.

— Richard Whately

Good manners are a part of good morals.

— Richard Whately

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think…

— Richard Whately

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine…

— Charles Babbage

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

— Barry Goldwater

This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

— Janet Finch

Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

— Bob Hawke

I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third…

— Seth Godin

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's…

— Lance Morrow

I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving…

— Paul J. Meyer

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

— William McDonough

I am alive. Up here with the song of the engine and the air whispering on my face as the sunlight and shadows play…

— Stephen Coonts