Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joni Mitchell

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Dalai Lama

I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend [with dignity, with honor].

Sinclair Lewis

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Barry Manilow

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Nelson Mandela

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Myles Munroe

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

Dean Gilmour

He has a woman dress up like a boy in order to make a deep connection with the object of her affection. In the disguise, she can really be herself. We put on a mask to be more ourselves; we hide to reveal. This is the great contradiction about the art of acting, in fact.

William Bennett

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Wayne Fields

In the early stages, it showed affection for the president. But now what you want is somebody with maturity and confidence who doesn't need that kind of assurance.

Mike McKinney

I may be half the man I used to be. But my heart is still the same and my affection for this community has not died. What kind of world can I create now, what type of person can I become, what type of legacy can I leave now, not what I did before but what can I do now.

Martin Delany

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Laurie Graham

I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.

Alan Ball

I have such deep affection and love for these characters, I find it hard to be disappointed by them.

Brooks Robinson

I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play pro ball.