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Letter "A" » attentions
«Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
attention, attentions, constant, constants, in operation, just as, major, majors, nurse, operation, surgeon, surgeons, the majors, with attention
«It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attentions, delicacies, delicacy, flattering, impulse, pleasing, previous, proceed
«Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood»
Author: Laurence Sterne
(Writer)
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Courtship
| Keywords:
alarm, attentions, courtship, pointed, vague
«I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.»
«Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
attention, attentions, deeds, fix, fixes, fixing, fix it, fix up, listen, with attention, words
«If an angel out of heaven / Brings you other things to drink, / Thank him for his kind attentions, / Go and pour them down the sink.»
«Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(Author, Speaker)
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
attention, attentions, gift, The Gift, with attention
«Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
attentions, despised, disliked, failings, liked, neglected, nothings, respected, The General, trifles
«If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attentions, ceremony, coldness, neglect, paying, treated, trifling
«Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Criticism
| Keywords:
agreeable, attention, attentions, body, calls, call attention, criticism, criticisms, function, human, human body, may not, My state, necessaries, necessary, other states, pain, same, state, stating, the human body, unhealthy, with attention
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