A Quote by Susan Cain

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Susan Cain

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Breeding Good Good Breeding Mark Per Reserve Shyness Though Unacceptable

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Susan Cain
American - Writer
Born: March 20, 1968

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.

Gary L. Francione

The proposal for a new global reserve currency - or Special Drawing Rights - is a good idea for many reasons. Yes, for the Chinese it would cushion any fall in the value of the dollar per se because it would only be part of a basket of other currencies, including the yen and the euro.

Joseph Stiglitz

I'm even though I'm not per se sitting at a desk and in school, I'm still learning all the time.

Hayden Panettiere

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

Anton Chekhov

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

John Dewey

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

Theophilus London

I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

Takashi Murakami

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.

Robert Zubrin

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Samuel Johnson

When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.

Hugh S. Johnson

Let's just call what happened in the eighties the reclamation of motherhood . . . by women I knew and loved, hard-driving women with major careers who were after not just babies per se or motherhood per se, but after a reconciliation with their memories of their own mothers. So having a baby wasn't just having a baby. It became a major healing.

Anne Taylor Fleming

I've wanted to not play as much. I would like to just sing now. Even though I don't think I'm a great singer, I wouldn't mind just - not being a frontman, per se, but singing and not playing.

Stephen Malkmus

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

Tom Holt

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.