"Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them."

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Source : David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”

David Riesman

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Manners Quotes

“There was never a point in which I was worried about being jealous about what my friends had seen or done. Instead, I felt blessed that I was able to feel what others were all about. I was enlightened by their truth and way about things.”

Source : Matthew Carter (2009). “Liquid Soul”, p.7, Matthew Carter
“The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.”
“The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.”
“Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms.”
“Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.”
“I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.”
“I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.”
“The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 12, 2014

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