Quotes About Manner

The ultimate self-effacement is not the pretense of the minimal, but the jocular considerations of the maximal in the manner of Wallace Stevens.

I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran

The future infrared space telescope will cover that area in a much more efficient manner.

Returning to the subject which we had begun, I think it is made clear by these considerations that it is not sufficient, nor a Christian course, to preach the works, life, and words of Christ in a historic manner, as facts which it suffices to know as an example how to frame our life, as do those who are now held the best preachers

There was sufficient left, however, of the liveliness of a long time ago to give an air of ghastly mirth to the old woman's manner, which made that manner extremely repulsive. What can be more repulsive than old age, which, shorn of the beauties and graces, is yet not purified from the follies or the vices of departed youth?

It is well, if one has nothing, to acquire an air.

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

These interpretations of Sor Juana's decision to join a religious order hold Sor Juana to feminine standards of piety. In other words, because Sor Juana did not express her faith in the manner typical of the women of her era (through mystical writing and mortification, for example), she is not interpreted as pious.

History is in a manner a sacred thing, so far as it contains truth; for where truth is, the supreme Father of it may also be said to be, at least, inasmuch as concerns truth.

she possessed a distant manner, preventing ease or intimacy with those around her. It was as if the young woman were turning down her lights to minimize any possibility of attraction or notice.

Nicknames are only used in a friendly manner and not when making a sincere prayer or dedicating your prayers to the Creator.

manner, a change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.

It's a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

The coroner summed up at considerably length and with commendable simplicity. His manner suggested that the jury as a whole was certifiable as mentally unsound, but that he knew his duty and would perform it in the teeth of stupidity.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Reason, therefore, demonstrates that external events do not depend on us, but that it is our own business to use them in this way or the opposite, having received reason as a judge and an investigator of the manner in which we ought to meet those events that come from without. 6.

He possessed that quality in his profanity of not offending by it.

Tis my will that thou and he shall die by my hand. Thou hast but to choose the manner of thy death." "Old age," Cimorene said promptly. "Mock

You never did master a leer." - Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree

He had an easy manner and an honest smile. He seemed an earnest man. I did not like him.

As they say: know a lady by her manner, a man by his cloth.

Similarly, Thompson urges his readers to not allow the aggressive words and manner of an adversary to have their intended harmful effect.