#gracious

I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore. ↗

— Chris Pratt

#anymore #anything #auditioning #been #come

Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure. ↗

— Knute Rockne

#good #gracious #i #loser #me

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win. ↗

— Dorothy Kilgallen

#i #i think #important #more #sometimes

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#favor #graciously #refuse

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#america #any #blames #ceo #door

If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the stadium. Self-interest was generally checked at the door with your coat and hat. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#greatest-generation #magnanimity #noblesse-oblige #education

Thank you to Giulia Fani, Joan Spence and my sister for the rooms and desks they loaned me. ↗

— Moez Surani

#familial-perspectives #favoritism #floaters #graciousness #politicized-spaces

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#demonstration #does #estate #gracious #handed

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others. ↗

— Rick Warren

#experienced #feel #forgiven #forgiving #grace

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#meeting #outgoing #president #typical #very