Aparted Friends Quotes & Sayings

Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing. — Nadia Boulanger

The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The danger from lightning is gone when the thunder is heard, and the worst is over when misfortune has arrived. — Ivan Panin

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself. — B.H. Liddell Hart

My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to. Their damp marine weather, blowing in from the southwest, came in the right direction. When the mountains are hidden under a low sky, one might almost imagine oneself to be in Britain. — Jonathan Raban

With the postwar depression,
however, the farmers' problems became the bankers' problems, and the insurance companies', and the USDAs. Suddenly, everyone was interested in helping the farmer become modern.21 — Deborah Fitzgerald