"Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness."

-- Confucius

#Clever Quotes #Rudeness Quotes #Propriety Quotes

“I love traveling, but I hate planes.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.
“Columbus was an Abraham, for he went out not knowing whither he went. Columbus was a Moses, for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Only the man of faith is the man of power. Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. God grant that to-day in that bark we may be wafted by God's blessing, and may land at last on the shores of Heaven, where we shall sing a sweeter Te Deum than that which awoke the echoes on the soil of virgin America, or those amid the splendors of the court at Barcelona.”
“When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.”

Source : "Desiderata" (1927)
“The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.”
“Put it this way: singing is not my day job.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.”
“We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.”
“Great, now Iâ€™ve turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said.”

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