Companionships Quotes & Sayings

We have a tendency to describe the human condition in lofty terms, such as a quest for freedom or striving for a virtuous life, but the life sciences hold a more mundane view: It's all about security, social companionships, and a full belly. There is obvious tension between both views, which recalls that famous dinner conversation between a Russian literary critic and the writer Ivan Turgenev: 'We haven't yet solved the problem of God,' the critic yelled, 'and you want to eat! — Frans De Waal

She sat on a worn wooden bench, and read her book, and nibbled on her sandwich. The air was warm syrup, was literally thick with pollen and dandelion clocks and photons moving at the speed of light. An hour passed, then two. I never arrived at the park, wearing the only suit I never had, the one with a hole in the side pocket that no one ever saw. — Charles Yu

He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, unconscious. It must, indeed, be a way of living. — Willa Cather

Bob out of his momentary — J. A. Jance

So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. — Charles Evers

One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did. Man is born to think for himself. — Denis Diderot

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor. — Kristin Hunter

Christ has made of death a narrow starlit strip between the companionships of yesterday and the reunions of tomorrow. — William Jennings Bryan

The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses. — Ian McKellen

Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness ... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle ... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy. — Dante Alighieri

[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck. — Calvin Coolidge

Laila was a nightmare in goal, but Kevin and Neil had an advantage few teams who faced the Trojans had: they had a nightmare in their own goal who they had to practice against daily. They'd spent all year trying to outsmart the best goalkeeper in the south. They didn't have that much time to figure Laila out, but they didn't need it. — Nora Sakavic

Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Aficionado my ass ... I just love to smoke cigars — James Woods

I hate to admit this, but some days hearing about other people's problems actually cheers me up. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A friendship forged in the fires of adversity is a strong as one that has weathered the test of time. — Lindsey Kelk

I'm 47, I have gray hair, and yet people still come up to me on the street who are in their twenties, who weren't even born when 'Singles' was made ... well, they were pretty tiny, anyway ... and they say, 'Oh, I love that movie 'Singles.' And I always say, 'How old are you?' — Campbell Scott

The soul-sucking activity of TV-watching feels better when it is done with other souls. — Mary Schmich