Manner Quotes

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My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner… — Marquis de Sade
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. — Honore de Balzac
It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician... — William C. Bryant
Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies… — William E. Gladstone
Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens… — Simone Weil
If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was… — Leo Tolstoy
A free mind is one which is untroubled and unfettered by anything, which has not bound its best part to any particular manner of being… — Meister Eckhart
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are… — Frederick William Faber
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing… — Miguel de Cervantes
God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior. — Henepola Gunaratana
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and… — Edward Everett
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to… — Dan S Kennedy
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one… — Thomas Carlyle
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's… — Michel de Montaigne
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence… — Michel de Montaigne
In short, the best thing to do is behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen or under, try not to go… — Woody Allen
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult… — William Hazlitt
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is… — Thomas Carlyle

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