Richard Whately Quotes

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

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• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Work
  • Look
  • Well

• Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Respect

• An ethic to supplement and guide the economic relation to land presupposes the existence of some mental image of land as a biotic mechanism.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Islamic

• I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

  

  Huey Lewis Huey Lewis

• It's fair to say that white America wouldn't have elected an African-American president without the integrating effect of black music - from Louis Armstrong to hip-hop - and black drama and fiction, commercial as much as 'serious.'

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • Music
  • American
  • America

• What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.

  

  Christy Turlington

• There's nothing like playing at home.

  

  Kygo
  • Home

• I'm so used to America, used to the traffic in L.A., and I don't really feel it click with the Korean culture. But obviously, I have a Korean face, and I feel like that's just - you know, I can't walk around people like I'm, like, straight-up American. It's like, I'm Korean American. My parents are from Korea.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I've learned to accept the fact that my students are far too busy preparing for their own legal careers to care one bit about the off-campus antics of Professor Burke. I get the impression that my students are vaguely aware of my novels, but are at best mildly curious.

  

  Alafair Burke

• Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • Mind
  • Words

• To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Perfect
  • Value
  • Gold

• In an era of social everything, we want to spark possibility and opportunity in the creative arts, in real life, person to person.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Life
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

  

  Jill Scott
  • People
  • World

• I have a bad sweet tooth. I'm pretty good when I have to eat well for work, but otherwise, I could eat a whole roll of raw cookie dough.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

  

  Bruce Barton
  • Home
  • Breakfast

• We need to show the fact that when you start thinking about freedom and liberty, personal responsibility, and opportunity to achieve the American Dream, the Republican party is the best party to do that.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Dream

• Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Humanity

• I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job.

  

  Erin Davie
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Jobs

• To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Thinking
  • Perfection
  • Manners