Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 1821 till 1840 of 2790.

  • Peggy Noonan Read good, big important things.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • William Faulkner Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Carol Berg Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Mortimer J. Adler Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
    Mortimer J. Adler
    American philosopher, educator, and popular (1902 - 2001)
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  • Babe Ruth Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Alexander Hamilton Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Arbie M. Dale Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.
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  • Oscar Wilde Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Joseph Roux Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Harold Lindsell Regardless of the day or the hour; whether in seeming good times or bad, the Christian lives in the world for the good of the world and for the sake of the world.
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  • Anna Lindh Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Doug Horton Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • James Gordon Bennett Remember son, many a good story has been ruined by over verification.
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  • Stephen King Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
    Different Seasons (1982)
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Socrates Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Cass Sunstein Research shows that if people are talking and listening to like-minded others, they become more dogmatic, more unified, and more extreme. Personalized Facebook experiences are a breeding ground for misunderstanding and miscommunication across political lines and, ultimately, for extremism.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Voltaire Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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