Avoiding Social Engagements Quotes & Sayings

Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends. — Elaine S. Dalton

THE SALINAS VALLEY is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay. — John Steinbeck

We oppose all corporate welfare, whether we benefit or not. You will find that our policy positions mainly hurt our profitability rather than help it. — Charles Koch

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it is to one's advantage to be a little less than truthful, which makes one courageous when faced with great obstacles and which endows one with the firmness of' wise self-discipline. — Arthur S. Adams

There are people we have never seen who are busy thinking up things we should be worried about. — Naomi Shihab Nye

From his genial cursing, his infrequent shaving, the relaxed way he talked around the cigarette in the corner of his mouth, it was almost as if he were playing a character: some cool guy from a fifties noir or maybe Ocean's Eleven, a lazy, sated gangster with not much to lose. Yet even in the midst of his new laid-backness he still had that crazed and slightly heroic look of schoolboy insolence, all the more stirring since it was drifting towards autumn, half-ruined and careless of itself. — Donna Tartt

Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round. — Greg Gutfeld

I have an almost miraculous power of escaping from necessities of this kind. Destiny itself has often been worsted in the attempt to get me out to dinner. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

What I'm mostly good at is sleeping, he once told me in confidence, but he added, I don't see much future in it. — Brian Andreas