#gracious

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.


Francis Bacon


#courteous #gracious #man #shows #strangers

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.


E. Stanley Jones


#away #begin #cease #give #god

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.


Helen Keller


#awkwardness #barrier #book #discourses #disenfranchised

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.


Rick Warren


#experienced #feel #forgiven #forgiving #grace

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.


Lew Wasserman


#meeting #outgoing #president #typical #very

I bought you something" Willows blurts out. "You bought...What?" Willow closes her eyes for a second. She's a little surprised she's going to give it to him after all, but there's no going back now. She has to. "At the bookstore." She reaches into her bag again, and pushes the package across the table towards him. Guy takes the book out of the bag slowly, Willow waits for him to look disappointed, to look confused that she would buy him such a battered, old- "I love it when used books have notes in the margins, it's the best," Guy says as he flips through the pages. "I always imagine who read it before me." He pauses and looks at one of Prospero's speeches. "I have way too much homework to read this now, but you know what? Screw it. I want to know why it's your favorite Shakespeare. Thank you, that was really nice of you. I mean, you really didn't have to." "But I did anyway," Willow says so quietly she's not even sure hears her. Hey," Guy frowns for a second. "You didn't write anything in here." "Oh, I didn't even think...I, well, I wouldn't even know what to write," Willow says shyly. "Well, maybe you'll think of something later," he says. Willow watches Guy read the opening. There's no mistaking it. His smile is genuine, and she can't help thinking that if she can't make David look like this, at least she can do it for someone.


Julia Hoban


#friendship #gift #gracious #imperfect #personalization

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity.


Joseph Lancaster


#approbation #beholds #children #common #differently

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?


Jeanette MacDonald


#again #clothes #going #good #gracious

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.


Jessica Mitford


#american public #dying #expensive #gracious #huge

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.


George Andrew Olah


#admired #chemists #contact #during #establish