Manner Quotes
1366 Manner quotes by 1009 unique authors
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I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.
— Roger Mahony
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Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this: an appropriate time,…
— George Will
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There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and…
— Samuel Johnson
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If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar…
— James Madison
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I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise…
— Grover Cleveland
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks…
— Ezra Pound
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
— Hosea Ballou
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Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are…
— Edward Hoagland
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner…
— Andre Breton
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Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for…
— Frank Zappa
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Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically.…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and…
— David Hume
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A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked,…
— Peter Abelard
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