Ends Quotes - Page 87

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

The same one who mistreated you will end up needing you.... It is the circle of life.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Old friends become more and more precious to us as the years pass. They can look at us for who we once were and who we are now, appreciating the difficulties we have overcome, the abilities we have acquired, and the ways we have stayed true to ourselves.

Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly.

There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven.

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

He's my friend that speaks well of me behind my back.

Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.