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  • The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

    Respect   Ocean   Sea  
    Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.393, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My only hope was to be polite.

    Polite  
    Mark Vonnegut (2002). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.190, Seven Stories Press
  • An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.

    Nature   School   Parent  
    Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.176, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

    Lying   Way   Interviews  
    "Candidate Fundraising: Is This All Messed Up, or Am I Wrong?" by Greta Van Susteren, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.
  • Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

    Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.
  • In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

  • 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!

  • If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

  • My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

    Brother   Dad   Nice  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

    Insane   Polite   Decided  
    Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.640, Macmillan
  • I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

    Real   People   Guy  
  • It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime to maintain the surly, off-putting image that is widely believed to define the city. In truth, niceness is nearly epidemic in this town.

    Judith Kelman (2004). “Every Step You Take”, Jove Publications
  • Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

    Military   War   Writing  
  • I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

    Mother   Father   Kids  
  • I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

    Richard Dawkins (2017). “Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist”, p.237, Random House
  • I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

    Polite   Frank   Persons  
    Source: travel.cnn.com
  • Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

    Jean Kerr (1973). “Finishing Touches”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

    Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.172, Pan Macmillan
  • You rang, Mino- well, you’re not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a polite term, demon. (Jericho) Mister Master it is. What can I do for you? (Asmodeus)

  • Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

    Girl   Hair   Long  
    Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
  • If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

    Reading   Writing   Mean  
    "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, www.npr.org. December 1999.
  • It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

    Gun   Thinking   Law  
    "U of O Speech Cancelled". Ottawa Citizen, March 24, 2010.
  • The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

    Advice   Given   Equal  
    "Samuel L Jackson: 'Now we got the movie stuff out of the way, let's talk about something serious'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2008.
  • If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.175, Simon and Schuster
  • I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

    Karen Chance (2008). “Embrace the Night”, p.31, Penguin
  • I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

  • No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect of knowledge. That is of its very essence. What a thing society is! The workingman, with his trade union, knows that. Men and women moving in polite society understand it, still better. But Bohemians, like me, whose work is done in solitude, are apt to forget that not only is a man as a whole little better than a brute in solitude, but also that everything that bears any important meaning to him must receive its interpretation from social considerations.

    Moving   Men   Essence  
  • I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

    Liars   Hug   Polite  
    Jim Thompson (2010). “POP. 1280”, p.9, Hachette UK
  • I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

  • Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him?

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