Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that… — E B White Copy Share Image
“And if you are a mom who has watched your child’s father leave, my heart goes out to you. I also pray… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular opinion, manners are not a luxury good that's interesting only to those who can afford to think about them.… — Henry Alford Copy Share Image
“First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does… — carson mccullers Copy Share Image
“one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.” The president smiled. “Well, they’ve had enough time to play… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
I was raised in the valley, there were shadows and death. Got out alive but with scars I can't forget. This kid… — Lindsey Copy Share Image
“You got three kids, three deadbeat baby daddies. How in the hell are you going to be able to attend college while… — D.E. Eliot Copy Share Image
“A brief whiff of her mother had come through a cracked window that opened to a weed-infested courtyard. It was a fragrance… — Victoria Dougherty Copy Share Image
“Ranulf had spent much of his life watching those he loved wrestle with the seductive, lethal lure of kingship. It had proved… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?'… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“To her complete bafflement, instead of continuing his attack, Ian Thornton turned around and met her stormy eyes, an odd expression on… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
We must remember that if all the manifestly good men were on one side and all the manifestly bad men on the… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies,… — James Blunt Copy Share Image
My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or… — Tagg Romney Copy Share Image
... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“My unlucky star had destined me to be born when there was much talk about morality and, at the same time, more… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
“Cassio is a ladies’ man, that is to say, a man who feels most at home in feminine company where his looks… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“HIGGINS. The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I'm youth, I'm joy!" Peter sang out. "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg." This, of course, was… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be sure, but not an ordinary fact,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash;… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Most girls say a good man is hard to find and it's through cause a good man don't like to seek they… — Raheem Nicholas Copy Share Image
“Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Having renounced his native land, Sanger adopted no other. He roved about from one European capital to another, never settling anywhere for… — Margaret Kennedy Copy Share Image
I went to many coaching clinics, talked to other coaches, read articles, books, etc. Anything I could do that would help me… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief… — Robert Grosseteste Copy Share Image
I have known some good men who have been so addicted to their study, that they have thought the last day of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good.… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“FIRST MORAL Good manners are not easy They need a little care, But when we least expect it Bring rewards both rich… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
“You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could be squeezed… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Surely,' said she, 'there is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image