The things the Bible says, they're all true. The teachings the Bible tells, they all firmly stand under every manner of scrutiny.
I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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.
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.
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.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
I would apologize for my rudeness, if I had any manners. Happily, I don't.
The best ingredients for likeableness are a happy expression of countenance, an unaffected manner, and a sympathetic attitude.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtue we write in water.
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again.
He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.
Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
The authentic human has the might of compassion and the creative power to do any manner of good.
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
