Cringey Friendship Quotes & Sayings

I go to see my kids in school plays. — Sean Bean

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about. — Thomas Mallon

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round. — Ismail Kadare

Lovegood had got out The Quibbler again. Meanwhile, at the Hufflepuff table Ernie Macmillan was one of the few still staring at Professor Umbridge, but he was glassy-eyed and Harry was sure he was only pretending to listen in an attempt to live up to the new prefect's badge gleaming on his chest. Professor Umbridge did not seem to notice the restlessness of her audience. Harry had the impression that a full-scale riot could have broken out under her nose and she would have ploughed on with her speech. The teachers, however, were still listening very attentively, and Hermione seemed to be drinking in every word Umbridge spoke, though, judging by her — J.K. Rowling

Beware of advice - even this. — Carl Sandburg

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me. — Shirley Maclaine

Fathers and mothers," she found herself saying, "leave their mark, no matter if we've known them a lifetime or only a day. — Nalini Singh

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life. — Pythagoras

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security. — Samuel Adams

Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy. — April Haney

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain ... pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained. — Marcia Angell

Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates ... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking ... — Baruch Spinoza

Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything. — Tibor Kalman

Even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites - but often thwarts - our investigation and our understanding. — Dean Koontz