Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
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PLEASEFINDTHIS Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
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GEORGE ORWELL One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
ROSAMOND LEHMANN One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.
ROSAMOND LEHMAN Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
PAULO COELHO I gave them the kind of backdrop to make them feel 'I really have arrived,'
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CHARLES BUXTON To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.
DAVID ALAN GRIER One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
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ALEX PENELAS It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.
CLIFF SHAW The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse...
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CAREY GREEN Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
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GORDON SAUER I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
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SIGMUND FREUD Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them
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NICHOLAS SPARKS Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.
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ROY T. BENNETT Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last
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AMY WALDMAN I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at al...
AMY POEHLER I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. ...
AMY POEHLER The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins a...
AMY LEE In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In Amer...
AMY CHUA At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing a...
AMY TAN Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, tra...
AMY CHUA I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, st...
AMY POEHLER I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.
AMY WINEHOUSE Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY Tina Fey and I have 15 things in development: 'Laverne and Shirley', 'Starsky and Hutch ...
AMY POEHLER Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't tr...
AMY POEHLER When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accuse...
AMY ADAMS I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd ba...
AMY HECKERLING I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don...
AMY GRANT When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on t...
AMY CHILDS Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...
AMY TAN We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a lov...
AMY JACKSON