Ends Quotes - Page 94

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Any child can be developed, it depends on how you do it

The Federal Department of Odds and Ends: sweepus underum carpetae.

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.

When you die it's the end of your life.

Whatever happens, my audience mustn't know whether I am spoofing or being serious; and likewise I mustn't know either. I am in a constant interrogation; when does the deep and philosophically valid Dali begin, and where does the looney and preposterous Dali end?

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

A true initiation never ends.

Old friends are memories personified.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.

A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.

What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?

You learn who your friends are when the sh-t hits the fan.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Fashion is a trend, style is within a person.

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

If you have a friend who suffers, you have to help him.«My dear friend, you are on safe ground. Everything is okay now. Why do you continue to suffer? Don't go back to the past. It's only a ghost; it's unreal». And whenever we recognize that these are only movies and pictures, not reality, we are free. That is the practice of mindfulness.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.