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.

Richard Whately

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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

• I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Situation
  • Comfortable
  • Room

• 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

• Theater is definitely something that, through the course of my childhood and even in college, I enjoyed participating in. I would love to do theater, or as far as movies or television goes, if the right thing came along I would definitely entertain it.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • College
  • Childhood

• 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

• We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.

  

  Alan Casden
  • Real

• Noah was this sort of patron saint in my life. When I finished Pi and I started to think about what was next, I was like, "Wow, it's interesting that no one has done a film of one of the greatest stories ever told." Even if you're not a Jew, a Muslim, or a Christian, you likely have a flood story in your culture.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I think there's definitely billions and billions in waste, fraud and abuse. There's billions that can be generated in the economy by eliminating the bureaucracy.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Thinking
  • Economy
  • Abuse

• If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Plant
  • Surf

• 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