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My Friend Quotes (page 36)

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King jr.
Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends. Agatha Christie
Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends. Spider Robinson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree..."
All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Louis L'Amour quote: "One thing has always been true: That book or that person who..."
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend. Louis L'Amour
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? I struggle by remembering my friends; others I have known by remembering some place--some beloved place or tree--we thought you one of these. E. M. Forster
Agatha Christie quote: "Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and..."
Mrs. Cavendish: I am charming to my friends one day, and forget all about them the next. Agatha Christie
Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have... David Foster Wallace
Why did you do all this for me?" he asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing. E. B. White
I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture. It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship, but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men. Charles Spurgeon
George R. R. Martin quote: "Too much light can hurt the eyes, my friend, and fire burns."
Too much light can hurt the eyes, my friend, and fire burns. George R. R. Martin
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.) Anne Lamott
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot Agatha Christie
Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yes, but not quite. George Carlin
Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds. Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies." Alphonse Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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