friendship

"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

"Without...Yehudi Menuhin, the West may not have found Indian classical music and decades later...thanks to Menuhin’s chance meeting and later lasting friendship with the master sitarist Ravi Shankar, …"

"The real world is made from open, interacting systems, behaving chaotically."

"“And how does that make you feel?” he crooned in the comforting tone of a therapist who may or may not actually care."

"Nationalism and patriotism in the wrong hands will destroy lives, it really will, because I'll tell you something: it takes a village to ruin a child. I think we've proven that time and time again in …"

"Drink up, baby, look at the starsI'll kiss you againBetween the barsWhere I'm seeing you thereWith your hands in the airWaiting to finally be caughtDrink up one more time and I'll make you mine..."

"Communism, socialism, the welfare state, et cetera, are essentially one and the same thing."

"There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness — turn on the light and the darkness automatically goes. Ramp up the light of unity within — help do that for …"

"It is much more trying to be continually tormented by evil men than by devils."

"Bork has essentially given up. I'm not ready to throw in the towel."

"The dilemma of a socialized system is that the information flow overwhelms a centralized system if it is open to new ideas and data, that closing the system and forcing the plan to work forecloses alt…"

"Push your luck, gorgeous, and eventually luck pushes back."

"What exactly is mathematics? Many have tried but nobody has really succeeded in defining mathematics; it is always something else."

"All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack othe…"

"If you look at the younger players coming through, they're not that good really. Most of them would do well as half-decent amateurs – or not even amateurs, they're so bad a lot of them. I've probably …"

"It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them."

"If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing."

"Then there were Cassidy and Allison, her best friends. She knew she could count on them to support her, at least in their own ways. But either of them, when faced with something that might be bearing …"

"...at the end of the day, nothing makes me feel more positive than something I can get really pissed off about."

"Patience ! They will come to it gradually! Rousseau has sold a landscape for five hundred francs; for my part, I have sold a view of Fontainebleau for seventy-five francs. And I am commissioned to ask…"