Polite Quotes - Page 8

• Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

  Jeff Goodell

  Environmental, Climate, Global Warming

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• Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but firm, and just not take no for an answer.

  William G. Bainbridge

  Army, Soldier, Sticks

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• It's hard to think of them polite flows when Stephano Polato suits are your night clothes, and Jordan sweat suits are your flight clothes, and you still make it even when they say your flight closed.

  Drake

  Humble, Night, Thinking

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• Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Witty, Men, Thanks

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

  Alexander Pope

  Ears, Hell, Courtesy

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

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• I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Guy

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• Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Smoking, Looks

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Atheism, Followers

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• My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

  Geri Halliwell

  Daughter, Mother, Responsibility

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• Diversity...is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do... And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that...will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together.

  William Merritt Chase

  Integrity, Eye, Race

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• Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Discipline, Risk

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

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• I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

  Germaine Greer

  Angel, Men, Secret

  germaine greer (1971). “the female eunuch”

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• I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Dream, Thinking, Fairs

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• 'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

  Jonathan Swift

  Father, Conversation, Polite Conversation

  "Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works".

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• Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

  Jonathan Swift

  Father, Good Woman, Cows

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• Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Writing, Safe, Compulsion

  Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

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• How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on a boat and send them back where they came from?' You know, he says it in polite language, but that's what Romney's been saying, 'Get home where you came from, start all over again.'

  Chris Matthews

  War, Home, People

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• When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?' Well, if you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fall, Views, Ceilings

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• There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

  Jessica Chastain

  Acting, Connections, Shy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

  Alice Englert

  Able, Doe, Belief

  "Alice Englert Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Getting the Southern Accent Right, and TWILIGHT Comparisons". Press conference, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

  Tiffani Thiessen

  Girl, Mom, Sweet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Important, Unhappy, Way

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being”, p.45, Canongate Books

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• Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

  Frank Bruni

  College, Errors, Records

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• In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

  Noomi Rapace

  Perfect, Feelings, Sweden

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• And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

  Renee O'Connor

  Sweet, Thinking, Essence

  "Renee O’Connor Exclusive Interview". The Star Scoop Interview, www.thestarscoop.com. March 30, 2005.

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