Quotes About Manner

But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.

William the Conqueror's campaigns against the rebels have usually been dealt with very briefly and resistance has been summarily dismissed as ineffective, largely because in the end, that resistance was overcome in a singularly brutal manner. Even

a consistently planned "worker" State there is no room for philosophy because philosophy cannot serve other ends than its own or it ceases to be philosophy; nor can the sciences be carried on in a philosophical manner, which means to say that there can be no such thing as university (academic) education in the full sense of the word.

She always called him Luca, in the Italian manner, and said it with that funny trans-European intonation, the accent oddly placed on the first syllable: 'Where's Loo-ka?', just like Audrey Hepburn saying, 'Take the pic-ture,' in Funny Face.

How you carry yourself is how people perceive you.

The manner of employing the leisure time is always an index of a people's culture. The Tamils of old had their own pastimes which reveal at once their rustic simplicity and their notable refinement (Pillay 1969: 326-327)

Music,' she said, in a languorous and dreamlike manner. 'Music is a betrayer of secrets; it is more treacherous even than dreams, which at least have the virtue of being private.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

Where fiscal space is low, fiscal policy needs to adjust in a growth-friendly manner to ensure public debt is on a sustainable path, while protecting the most vulnerable.

What is commonly assumed to be past history is actually as much a part of the living present as William Faulkner insisted. Furtive, implacable and tricky, it inspirits both the observer and the scene observed, artifacts, manners and atmosphere and it speaks even when no one wills to listen.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

Every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ—Fielding's Tom Jones.

Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing

7. Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may be things which God commands; and of good use both to themselves and others: yet, because they proceed not from an heart purified by faith; nor are done in a right manner,according to the Word; nor to a right end, the glory of God, they are therefore sinful, and cannot please God, or make a man meet to receive grace from God: and yet, their neglect of them is more sinful and displeasing unto God.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

If you mean to make your side of the argument appear plausible, do not prejudice the people against what you think truth by your passionate manner of defending it.

The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse.

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It was a state which might have seemed a suspiciously narcotic one except that it differed so little from his customary manner.

Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.

A very correct butler opened the door, with just the right amount of gloom in his bearing.