"Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe."

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Source : "Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" (1796 - 1797)

Edmund Burke

#Air Quotes #Law Quotes #Vex Quotes

“I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind...”
“The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.”
“The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.”
“I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.”
“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.”

Source : Recalled on her death,12 Dec 1968.
“To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.”
“I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.”
“Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.”

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