Comport Quotes

#1. If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.

Stephanie Mills

#2. To comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself.

Edwin A. Abbott

#3. Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Should what you get up to fail to comport with who you think you are, something is surely inaccurate (and likely optimistic) about who you think you are.

Lionel Shriver

#5. For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport that which is "grave and constant" (Joyce's epithets) in the mystery of our condition.

George Steiner

#6. The Laundry field operations manual is notably short on advice for how to comport one's self when being held prisoner aboard a mad billionaire necromancer's yacht, other than the usual stern admonition to keep receipts for all expenses incurred in the line of duty.

Charles Stross

#7. Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.

Toni Servillo

#8. One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.

Henry James

#9. I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

Karen Joy Fowler

#10. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence.

James Monroe

#11. In a word, to comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself. Such at least is the painful teaching of my experience.

Edwin A. Abbott

#12. So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

Tatiana Maslany

#13. I had to comport myself with something approaching dignity, at twenty.

Carrie Fisher

#14. He'll let you go when you can comport yourself as a lady." I snorted. Like that would ever happen. "When Hell freezes over." At his arched brow, I flushed and amended my statement, "Again.

Eve Langlais

#15. The acting that one sees upon the stage does not show how human beings comport themselves in crises, but how actors think they ought to. It is thus, like poetry and religion, a device for gladdening the heart with what is palpably not true.

H.L. Mencken

#16. No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

Epictetus

#17. It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

Tim O'Brien

#18. I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

Brendan Fraser

#19. In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

James Monroe

#20. Live with kindness, integrity and spirituality. Comport yourself with grace under pressure.

Bryant McGill

#21. All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

Robert Redford

#22. Falling in love is a beautiful phase till expectations happen ...

Saru Singhal

#23. I don't like to go anywhere. I just like to go.

Marty Rubin

#24. I'l erase your day

Kristen Ashley

#25. If you are not confused then you are not paying attention.

Tom Peters

#26. I see dance as glue for a community.

Twyla Tharp

#27. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#28. It's a four-letter word for a part of the human anatomy but it's not m-i-n-d.

Joseph Hansen

#29. The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.

Kevin Kelly

#30. A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

China Mieville

#31. The People of the Sunnah are the most knowledgeable of mankind concerning the truth, and the most merciful of the creation towards the rest of creation.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#32. As like as we (Super Junior and E.L.F.) started together, let's put up the end together.

Kangin

#33. The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

Carl Jung