friendship

"Well, actually, he forgot Poland."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

"It is literally crazy to be committing to an ETS before seeing the outcome of Copenhagen . . . and frankly idiotic before we see the final form of the US emissions trading scheme"

"The principal merit which should be required in our friends, is virtue : It is that which assures us they are capable of friendship, and worthy of it : expect nothing from your connections, when they …"

"On some rare occasions I do go to cinema theatres abroad. But if you really ask me I would rather watch a film on DVD all alone in the dark environs of my car or my home."

"Leviathan was like the Wizard of Oz, an illusion built from the calculations and imagination of those beholding it. But if there was not much behind the curtain, it did not really matter. For whatever…"

"The development of cross-strait relations is not decided unilaterally by any one side. It depends on a consensus on both sides."

"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."

"We have reached the bottom of the 9th inning, and now it is happening, what we normally experience at any ballpark when a visiting pitcher is so close to greatness, even the hometown fans come to root…"

"The crux of the retrieval problem is that selecting documents to read grows ever more difficult, and new techniques are continually needed."

"I’ve actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration."

"No man under Heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace — they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship — they take…"

"When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course."

"How to make friends and keep them."

"But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious."

"Even the Buddha found a place on the saints' calendar under the name Saint Josaphat. ... The Gospels contain a number of almost literal repetitions of phrases, parables and scenes from the Buddhist ca…"

"I don't really like knees."

"The King rose slowly to his feet and beckoned to the wizard, who had been sitting outside the circle of the firelight, apparently, trying to find a spell that would make a beer-can magically refill it…"

"If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone."

"At this point, I don’t need my records to be Number One or sell as many as this person or that person. That’s not fundamentally important — I don’t believe that sustains you."