friendship

"InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse: Nelley Connally"

"Nothing but man was really cruel, vindictive, except perhaps the loathly cat."

"a sustained increase in per capita or per worker product, most often accompanied by an increase in population and usually sweeping structural changes."

"At a rally in Istanbul, when talking about Erdoğan."

"It's amazing, it really is!"

"It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and …"

"The neurotic usually obeys his own Golden Rule: Hate thy neighbor as thyself."

"There is not one who speaks of us in our presence as he does in our absence," wrote Pascal. "All affection is based on this mutual deception, and few friendships would survive if we knew what our frie…"

"It is virtually impossible for what you are voting on to remain as it is currently. There could be huge changes to the treaty and there could be huge changes to the euro zone itself."

"It is generally conceded that mercantile capitalism preceded and prepared the ground for modern industrial capitalism."

"You could argue that there's maybe some mathematical interest in a Bach fugue, say, but the only thing that music does really well is "move" people -- make them feel something."

"I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland."

"Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur "Thou still unravished bride of quietness," then I am…"

"When the news first came that Japan had attacked us, my first feeling was of relief that the indecision was over and that a crisis had come in a way which would unite all our people. This continued to…"

"Of course, they had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick."

"Stanely Kunitz on his friend Theodore Roethke"

"For Prudence, is but Experience; which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto."

"I really like Morrissey. I really wanna kiss Morrissey."

"The idea that the worldling's 'reality' is illusion and that life itself is a dream from which we shall eventually awake is of course a Buddhist one; but in Xueqin's hands it becomes a poetical means …"

"Whatever may be said in favour of the Victorians, it is pretty generally admitted that few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks."