Quotes About Manner

Conduct is more convincing than language,

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

It is in our national interest for Congress to act on immigration reform in a comprehensive manner.

During the holiday season, we've asked everyone within the sound of my voice that if you're going to celebrate, celebrate in a responsible manner.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

Criticism addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

His manner with everyone but her was still rather stiff and remote.

They seemed to trust my scrappy climb out of the lower class would allow me to handle on first sight all manner of eating utensil by imitating, chimpanzeelike, their movements.

On being charged with the fact, the poor girl confirmed the suspicion in a grat measure by her extreme confusion of manner.

as she bestowed her heavy censure alike on his virtues as his errors, on his devoted friendship and his ill-bestowed loves, on his disinterestedness and his prodigality, on his pre-possessing grace of manner, and the facility with which he yielded to temptation, her double shot proved too heavy, and fell short of the mark. Nor

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. He wondered what response they could hope to obtain from him in such manner—if his response was what they wanted.

There was an expert competence in his manner of working; his movements were easy, intelligently economical.

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.

Walk and talk in manner of love or charity, for God is love.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

A rogue—But her manner was gay and delicious.She could make a Baptist preacher chokeWith laughter over a dirty joke.

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.