Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willa Cather

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

Saint Augustine

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will...

Mikhail Lermontov

Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.

Ozwald Boateng

I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

John Flanagan

Then the two friends leaned back and watched the sun rise clear of the trees. “Best time of day,” said Will. Yes,” Horace agreed. “What’s for breakfast?

Elizabeth David

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

Alexa Von Tobel

If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.

Diogenes

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

Euripides

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Walker Percy

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Robert Jeffress

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

Warren Mitchell

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

William Taylor

The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

Voltaire

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Winston Churchill

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

Jacque Fresco

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Renny Harlin

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Rose Macaulay

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Truman Capote

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Sara Blakely

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

William Faulkner

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Richard Rodriguez

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.

Upton Sinclair

Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.