Unmannered 7 Quotes & Sayings

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. — Antonio Machado

There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics ... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless sexual couplings often has the feel of a statistical survey. — John Allen Paulos

We often don't realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people. — Paulo Coelho

You're like a cat. If I get close, you'll ignore me and go far away. If I get hurt, you'll play around to share the pain. — Naoshi Arakawa

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit? — Aubrey Beardsley

She came unannounced, certain of finding him there and alone. In his room, there was no necessity to spare, lie, agree and erase herself out of being. Here she was free to resist, to see her resistance welcomed by an adversary too strong to fear a contest, strong enough to need it; she found a will granting her the recognition of her own entity, untouched and not to be touched except in clean battle, to win or to be defeated, but to be preserved in victory or defeat, not ground into the meaningless pulp of the impersonal. — Ayn Rand