friendship

"I don't want to say how, but we had absolutely perfect -- as though you were watching a movie. It was -- that -- that in -- the technology there alone is -- is really great."

"Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools."

"He was ashamed and embarrassed, angry too that such a man could end like this. If peace did eventually come, there would be many more redcoats begging in the streets."

"On April 20, 1829, Swati Tirunal formally assumed charge of his kingdom. Those were tough times for Indians."

"Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things — old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

"Mr Rudd's arrogance and vanity in wanting to lead the world in cutting C02 emissions is really sickening"

"I had always said that when I could see the holes in the hands and feet of Jesus myself then I would consider believing. It was very much a standard line – I wouldn’t take anything on belief, I wanted…"

"The is a grant of tax relief. ...ssentially it says... I, Pharaoh so and so... hereby make this grant of tax relief to these priests."

"A woman can only become a man’s friend in three stages: first, she’s an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only after that a friend."

"Everything is really about lighting."

"She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never."

"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add an useful plant to its culture; especially, a bread grain; next in value to bread is oil."

"Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal."

"I don't want to be a man. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."

"Trouble is a great deal of fun, and crimes committed without malice are usually forgiven among peers."

"Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at …"

"The endearing elegance of female friendship."

"Apocalypses, apparently, are subject to fashion like everything else. What terrifies one generation can seem obsolete and trivial to the next. Take our modern attitude toward war. Most anthropologists…"

"If you want to be rich, you need to be financially literate."