Amiable Quotes

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. John W. Gardner
Life Man Will Free Nation Every Mediocrity Striving Free Man Excellence Highest Idea Implies Goal Survive Which Themselves Standards Stands Amiable Phase Set
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. John Henry Newman
Love You Genius World Strong Hero Be Strong Rules Must No-One Powerful Dominion Organizing Amiable
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. Charles Inglis
Soul Dark Suppressed Virtuous Principles Exerted Passions Affections Malevolent Laid Them Mild Amiable
For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation. Deborah Tannen
Relationship You Conversation Together Women Yourself Girl Think Find Wounded Having Chat Perfectly Talk Glue Blow Holds Apart Exploded Then Explosive Amiable Suddenly Why
The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours. Jakob Bohme
Life Good Quality Vegetables Good Taste Blessed White Sweet Every Fragrant Pleasant Earth Bitter Colours Fair Maketh Opposite Yellow Friendly Gracious Taste Refreshing Amiable Creature Set
Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment. Lord Byron
Great Nothing Mine Out Finding Merit Discernment Amiable Her
Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally. Maria Doyle Kennedy
Women Men Pleasing More Generally Women Are Submissive Than Expected Often Amiable
Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal. Richard Corliss
Great Comforting Lost Independent Characters More Never Between Like His Western Escape Than Maverick Famous James Enduring In-Between Grand Grand Prix Movies Appeal Files Series Amiable Garner Played
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. Samuel Butler
Good People Care Thought Clever About More Than Taste Being Either Amiable
I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' Terry Pratchett
You Men Three Every Think Liberal Humour Punch Must Find Something Voice Picked True Like Fairly Read Issue Up Process Which Boat Century English Amiable Published
How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. William Ellery Channing
Happiness Success Easy How Midst Amiable
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