Quotes & Sayings About Being Friends Through Hard Times

I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear! — Jessica Valenti

It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things in it: that it is a museum about the world as seen from Britain rather than a history focused on these islands. — Neil MacGregor

IsoldA: The only way to be alone is to behave as though we are alone already. — Victor Pelevin

These guys like each other almost as much as they like themselves. — Josh Mathews

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are. — Vinny Guadagnino

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something. — LeCrae

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me. — Ellen Barkin

With writing, we have second chances. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short. — Jay Samit

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day. — Ernest Hemingway,

In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons. — Steven Pinker

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus. — Neal Shusterman

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. — Pema Chodron

In a cruel twist of irony, they achieved the immortality they'd been seeking. It's believed that the hollows can live thousands of years, but it is a life of constant physical torment, of humiliating debasement - feeding on stray animals, living in isolation - and of insatiable hunger for the flesh of their former kin, because our blood is their only hope for salvation. If a hollow gorges itself on enough peculiars, it becomes a wight. — Ransom Riggs