friendship

"Say whatever you want, but try to be productive and positive and friendly. It's nice to be friendly. I was friendly once. It felt real good"

"As satirists have pointed out for millennia, civilized behavior is artificial and ridiculous: it means pretending to be glad to see people you aren’t glad to see, praising parties you wished you hadn’…"

"It was relatively easy, we now realize, to categorize countries and nations. You knew who your enemies were and whom you could count on as collaborators and friends. And even more importantly, you had…"

"No really great man ever thought himself so."

"Mrs. Galpin ... is one of the finest women in the world ... She speaks no English, only her native Sioux. She is a friend of her own race and also of the whites. Her friendship is not proved by words …"

"“My friend states that there has been no case of persecution or oppression in East Bengal. Will he kindly tell us whether it is not a fact that house searches had been made in Jessore, Dinapur, Pabna,…"

"I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing."

"What you call weakness comes from the strength of friendship."

"Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry."

"The only dumb idea is, quite literally, the one that is unspoken."

"Remember, FDA employees are serious about fear. We pay these people to panic about an iota of rodent hair in our chili, even when the recipe calls for it. FDA employees are first-class agonizers, worl…"

"I believe all the devils in hell are against us but we will triumph eventually because we have the Devil on our side."

"In America, despite the amazing rise in productivity we’ve had in the last 30 years, real wages have actually gone down. All of the increase in productivity has been taken by the finance, insurance, a…"

"Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second."

"Ruth insisted – that she really was afraid of us."

"It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood."

"The notion of system we are interested in may be described generally as a complex of elements or components directly or indirectly related in a network of interrelationships of various kinds, such tha…"

"He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled."

"Rigid distinctions between the deep and the shallow are generally themselves quite superficial."

"I recollect about 20 years since that a number of Quaker friends were sent to Winchester by Government, for some cause which I never understood so well, not being in the Legislature, but in a Departme…"