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

• Writing in another language gives me an additional freedom, an additional way of thinking. It's a challenge, but I like the challenge.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• I'm not as big a soccer fan as people might imagine, being British.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • Soccer

• Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

  

  Clarke Peters
  • America
  • Literature

• 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