Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luke Pasqualino

When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for ages, and when I eventually got the courage and told her, and she wasn't into me.

Erasmus Darwin

Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar / Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; / Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear/ The flying chariot through the field of air.

Adnan Dulaimi

What is happening in Tal Afar is an example of what should happen in other troubled places of Iraq,

Confucius

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?

J. R. R. Tolkien

Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, Brood of Morgoth, or Bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-earth, Neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread, nor danger, not doom Itself shall defend him from Feanor and Feanor's kin whoso hideth or hordeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth, or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: Death we will deal him ere day's ending. Woe unto the world's end! Our words hesar thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountian hear in witness and our vow remember Manwe and Varda!

Bible Bible

My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Robert Browning

Stand still, true poet that you are! / I know you; let me try and draw you. / Some night you'll fail us: when afar / You rise, remember one man saw you, / Knew you and named a star!

David Levithan

I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after him from afar and love him.

Julie Quinn

They tend to have eye issues and can have skin allergies because of all of the wrinkles. They were originally raised as Chinese guard dogs and can be more aloof than other breeds sometimes.

Atharva Veda

A person, whose heart is pure, remains untouched by 'pain' just as an assiduous person remains aloof from sinful deeds.

Sathya Baba

Anger, ego, jealousy are the biggest diseases,Keep yourself aloof from these three diseases.

Doug Elmets

If tribes like the Rumsey tribe, who have demonstrated a shared commitment with local governments, are not permitted to participate in local planning decisions by formal means, the governor is then, in effect, encouraging tribes to remain aloof and apart from their communities and it's horrible public policy.

Gerald Shuster

He's the one guy who, among modern vice presidents, is so aloof and so remote from ever making public statements and being in the public eye, even in a functionary capacity.

Bob Lieber

He's not aloof at all. He likes to laugh and joke. There is not an aura of 'I'm better.' He is a concerned teammate.

Lynda Barry

When an attractive but ALOOF (""cool"") man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our underpants. There are thousands of scientific concepts as to why this is so, and yes, yes, it's very sick but none of this helps.

Oscar Wilde

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Imogen Heap

There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.

Abdul Aziz

I will not go back to that village where I lost my wife, my relatives and my friends.

Charles Collins

He had a lot of friends, and you always saw him socializing with the other kids.

Will Rogers

We can get mighty rich, but if we haven't got any friends, we will find we are poorer than anybody.

Indian Proverb

If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.

Friends

I'll never win that battle. 'Friends' was a juggernaut. It's not going to happen like that again.

Andy Hartmann

I'm just happy to have him. He was one of my friends when he went to Hollywood. We used to hang out. I'd go watch his games, and he'd come watch us. Now, it's just great that we can be on the same team.

Bill Tyler

I liked helping people. I loved being a policeman. I had a lot of friends there and I really missed it when I got off.

William Butler Yeats

The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a song,Should know what issue is at stake:It is myself that I remake.

Maxine Waters

We're not fair-weathered friends. We will be with you to the end.

Truman Capote

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

Sarah Dessen

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

Sandra Bullock

I am a lover like no lover has ever loved before!

Saint Basil

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

Rose Tremain

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Khalil Gibran

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned.

Mahatma Gandhi

Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj.

Gina Lollobrigida

I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

Mike Purcell

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

Mike Lynch

I really didn't think we'd be able to be standing here. I never really thought I'd be able to do something like this.