Friendship is not how long we have been together; not how much we have given or received; not how many times we have helped each other; it is how we value each other.
#friendship #relationship #love

If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #patience

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom. ~Bernadette Devlin
#quotes #bernadette-devlin #politics #sacrifice

I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East. ~Bernie Sanders
#quotes #bernie-sanders #middle-east #war

Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels. ~Kiefer Sutherland
#quotes #kiefer-sutherland #places #romania

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
#quotes #rebecca-west #mozart #music

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
#quotes #ronald-reagan #politics

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
#quotes #iris-murdoch

Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
#quotes #ansel-elgort #human

A man's heart changes as often as does the autumn sky. ~Japanese Proverb
#proverbs #japanese-proverbs #change

Trying to use the power of yoga to improve your life, this is a terrible mistake. Because all you are doing is binding yourself more. You're putting more of your attention into the transient world. ~Frederick Lenz
#quotes #frederick-lenz #yoga #mistakes

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes. ~Nguyen Cao Ky
#quotes #nguyen-cao-ky #peace #united-states

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #beauty

And sometimes you lie to me and sometimes I lie to you; and there isn't a thing you could possibly do All these half-destroyed lives aren't as bad as they seem but now I see blood and I hear screams then I wake up and it's just a bad dream. ~Michael Grant
#quotes #michael-grant

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
#quotes #ann-macbeth #investment #human-resource

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. ~Jim Jeffords
#quotes #jim-jeffords #bush #environment

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. ~Joe Torre
#quotes #joe-torre #friendship #memories #work

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle; people trying to connect with each other. ~Spike Jonze
#quotes #spike-jonze #life #communication

It is a common teaching of the Saints that one of the principal means of leading a good and exemplary life is certainly modesty and the mortification of the eyes. Just as there is nothing better than modesty to preserve devotion in a soul and to edify one's neighbor, so too, there is nothing worse than immodesty and licentious glances to expose a person to the danger of becoming lax and loose in morals. ~Alphonsus Rodriguez
#quotes #alphonsus-rodriguez #saints

Connoisseurs think the art is already done. ~John Constable
#quotes #john-constable #connoisseurs #art

Hope is the physician of each misery. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #hope

Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
#quotes #john-spence #vision

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught. ~Eric Ries
#quotes #eric-ries #start-up #success

All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
#quotes #robert-zemeckis #art #thinking