Letters Quotes - Page 8

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters.

Every word of Holy Scripture was a love letter from God directed very personally to us and he asked us whether we loved Jesus.

The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

What do we do with a president who can basically change what Congress passed by attaching a letter saying I don't agree with this part or that part?

After eight months of one of the most intensive public and private investigations in American history, no one - no one - has come up with a shred of evidence that I had anything to do with the anthrax letters. I have never worked with anthrax. I know nothing about this matter.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

The headline of an advertisement accounts for 60% of the pull of that ad. In the same way, the start of a letter makes or breaks the letter, because if the start does not interest your reader, he never gets down to the rest of your letter.

Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.

There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.