Quotes 501 till 520 of 1030.
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.
Source: The 48 Laws of Power -
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
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Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
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Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.
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Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
But the hunters are gaining ground;
I've nowhere else to run.Source: Selected Poems (1983) -
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
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Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
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Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
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Long visits don't make for good friends.
Source: In ongenade (1999) -
Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.
Source: The 48 Laws of Power -
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
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