Quotes About Manner

His informality contrasted sharply with the manner of General Groves, who "demanded attention, demanded respect." Oppie, on the other hand, got attention and respect naturally.

It was an high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things, which belong to prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things, that belong to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia.

No doubt they were genuine Russian refugees. North Africa, from Cairo to Tangiers, was full of them. And these were like the rest; thin, indolent, with high cheek- bones, wide, supercilious mouths, and lank, ashen hair. Their manner cut them off from the rest of the people in the cafe as definitely as though they belonged to a distant and superior planet.

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but [by] the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and the values that they uphold.

Cock your hats, angles are attitudes

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. — BELL HOOKS1 While

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility. —BELL HOOKS

Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian's ease of manner and flow of ideas.

It was the first time, in a manner, that I had known space and air and freedom, all the music of summer and all the mystery of nature.

It would have been great if there were a trauma center located in our community, where you could access grief counseling and be able to address it in a healthy manner.

Some are born jerks" she said, "some have jerkhood thrust upon them, and some mature into rich and vibrant jerks. You are all three.

Already Edward Drone was beginning to feel something of what it meant to hold office and there was creeping into his manner the quiet self-importance which is the first sign of conscious power.

I don't do anything malicious or anything in a negative manner. I'm all about positivity and making people smile is positive.

Tis my humor as much to regard the form as the substance, and the advocate as much as the cause, as Alcibiades ordered we should: and every day pass away my time in reading authors without any consideration of their learning; their manner is what I look after, not their subject. And just so do I hunt after the conversation of any eminent wit, not that he may teach me, but that I may know him, and that knowing him, if I think him worthy of imitation, I may imitate him.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

such manner as shall seem most likely to conduce to the furtherance of the interests of the Confederate States of

She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently been able to keep this a secret from people.

A man, to hold his position, must have a dignified manner, a clean record, a respectable home anchorage.

In the Buddhist tradition, we speak of the oneness of the body and mind. Whate very happens to the body also happens to the mind....This is a very important encounter (engaging in sex) , not to be done in a casual manner.

When you treated things badly, things behaved badly.

When "the concept of error in the sense of incorrectness is … used on the same level as the concept of erring in the sense of sin and deception … we are quite far removed from the serious manner with which erring is dealt in Scripture … (as) a swerving from the truth and upsetting the faith (2 Tim. 2:18)

We'd found that these developmentally appropriate enrichment and therapeutic experiences had to be provided repeatedly and consistently in a respectful and caring manner.

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

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