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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
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
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I have a respect for manners as such,
they are a way of dealing with people
you don't agree with or like.
- Margaret Mead
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions,
but laws and institutions must go hand in hand
with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened,
as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered
and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances,
institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
- Thomas Jefferson [inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
Respond to emergencies in a casual manner.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We shall require a substantially
new manner of thinking
if mankind is to survive.
- Albert Einstein
The intellect is a cold thing
and a merely intellectual idea
will never stimulate thought
in the same manner that a spiritual idea does.
- Ernest Holmes
It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe in equality for everyone,
except reporters and photographers.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I don't believe in the after life,
although I am bringing a change of underwear.
- Woody Allen
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe,
just so you're sincere.
- Linus Van Pelt in Charles M. Schulz' Go Fly A Kite, Charlie Brown
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
Contrary to general belief,
I do not believe that friends are necessarily
the people you like best,
they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful,
natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
- Steve Martin
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I do not believe in using women in combat,
because females are too fierce.
- Margaret Mead
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha
People are stupid;
given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything.
Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie
because they want to believe it's true,
or because they are afraid it might be true.
- Terry Goodkind
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Trust your own inner guidance.
Have faith that your steps are
carrying you toward your dreams.
Keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
We believe whatever we want to believe.
- Demosthenes
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Everything we believe is a matter of evolution and history.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Because we believe that our ethnic group,
our society, our political party, our God,
is better than your God, we kill each other.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Have a Vision, a Dream.
Believe in that Vision.
Live that Vision with every fiber of your being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't believe me,
don't believe yourself,
and don't believe anyone else.
- don Miguel Ruiz
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I do not believe in the God of theology
who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Albert Einstein
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe in the fundamental truth
of all great religions of the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Positive thinking has acquired a bad reputation -
which I believe to be totally undeserved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
If you believe that a task will be difficult, it will be -
and you will have suffered with worry beforehand.
Approach life with joy and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
- John Lennon
You can, when you believe you can.
- Anonymous
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Identify your assumptions (what you believe).
Question how you feel when you hold those assumptions.
Visualize holding different assumptions.
Ask yourself how it feels to hold a different world-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I believe life's rich experiences need to be shared with others -
for me this is the way one builds knowledge.
- Pravs J
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's hard to believe, hard to be a believer,
when you see the way the things are in the world.
But I am a believer!
- Bono
I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything,
I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Love comes to those who still hope
even though they've been disappointed,
to those who still believe
even though they've been betrayed,
to those who still love
even though they've been hurt before.
- Anonymous
Reality doesn't impress me.
I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy,
and when ordinary life shackles me,
I escape, one way or another.
No more walls.
- Anais Nin
To believe in a just law of cause and effect,
carrying with it a punishment or a reward,
is to believe in righteousness.
- Ernest Holmes
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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