Manner Quotes

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.

By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Unfortunately, because of the lack of remains we are not going to be able to ever determine the exact manner or cause of death. The coroner will classify both as undetermined.

Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you are alive.

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.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and the manner of discharging those duties are outside the purview of government.

Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Although I agree that wild horses are a symbol of the American West, I also believe that it is the responsibility of Congress to ensure that these animals are managed, protected, and controlled in an effective manner.

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.

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.