#anne

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#bestow #careful #children #concern #doing

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#bad #be patient #good #good manners #manners

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #dues #long #manner #means

Apart from these, let all others remain to guard our glorious banners. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#banners #glorious #guard #others #our

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#duty #his #life #man #manner

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#defies #different #different way #going #had

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#basically #certain #forms #function #interpretation

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#object #only #people #technology #treat

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany. ↗

— Erik Larson

#around #by the people #chaotic #character #country

I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#day #diary #doing #future #good