Friendly Poems Quotes & Sayings

Kuni was the sort of man, Risana realized, who, rather than deceive himself, was so full of self-doubt that he could no longer see himself. — Ken Liu

Autobiographia Literaria"
When I was a child
I played by myself in a
corner of the schoolyard
all alone.
I hated dolls and I
hated games, animals were
not friendly and birds
flew away.
If anyone was looking
for me I hid behind a
tree and cried out "I am
an orphan."
And here I am, the
center of all beauty!
writing these poems!
Imagine! — Frank O'Hara

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert] Trivers together with the economists Robert Frank and Jack Hirshleifer has pointed out that pure magnanimity can evolve in an environment of people seeking to discriminate fair weather friends from loyal allies. Signs of heartfelt loyalty and generosity serve as guarantors of one s promises reducing a partner s worry that you will default on them. The best way to convince a skeptic that you are trustworthy and generous is to be trustworthy and generous. — Steven Pinker

United have more experience but we have a much better team and play much better football, — Roberto Mancini

I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea. — Robert Bly

The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us. — Sam Keen

Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she no longer noticed when she bled. — Elizabeth Hoyt

If I could play any character from the book though it'd be Church. Who wouldn't want to be a cat?! — Jamie Campbell Bower

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons. — Anna Chlumsky

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. — Ian Hamilton Finlay

In the mind of the Indian public, journalists currently occupy a position of respect somewhere between pond scum and Ebola virus. — Sidin Vadukut

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last. — Adam Duritz

If there was neither a time before nor a time after, then was not the moment of creation eternal and yet for ever instantaneous? — Steven Erikson

I thought if I told no one it might not be true. — Jean Rhys

Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful. — Pearl S. Buck

I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid. — Nancy Horan