"Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything."

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Source : Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

Diana Vreeland

#Thinking Quotes #Thoughtfulness Quotes #Manners Quotes

“Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.”
“I like a lot of west coast stuff like Aerial Pink.”
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
“The law has been perverted, and the powers of the state have become perverted along with it. The law has not only been turned from its proper function, but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose. The law has become a tool for every kind of greed. Instead of preventing crime, the law itself is guilty of the abuses it is supposed to punish. If this is true, it is a serious matter, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.”
“Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great poetry of truth.”

Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Sketch book of popular geology: Popular geology: A series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh”, p.123
“If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love were on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs, even if they were coming in fuzzy.”
“When you are committed to doing whatâ€™s right, you are sowing seeds for Godâ€™s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.”
“We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.”

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