Friends Interfering Quotes & Sayings

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal — Diana Palmer

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring? — Debasish Mridha

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

None of them were the men we knew. The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. — Margaret Atwood

I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them? — Karl Ove Knausgaard

This, perhaps, is how lives are measured, a series of abandonments that we hope beyond reason will eventually be reconciled. — Anthony Doerr

I think you'd better stay extra alert tonight."

"Okay."

"I'm serious, Jeff. Someone snuck up on both Hampton and Martin, and neither of them are shirkers."

He grins. "You're worried for me, aren't you?"

"Course I am."

"Know what I think?"

I scowl at him, which only widens his grin.

He steps closer, puts a hand to my chin, and lifts it so I can't avoid his gaze. "I think you're in love with me," he says.

I stare at his lips. What comes out of my mouth is: "Jefferson McCauley Kingfisher, you have the swagger of a rooster and the swelled head of a melon. — Rae Carson

face lit up with a glow of gratitude that was prayer, though he did not know it. Then furtively the percussion-cap box came out. He released the tick and put him on the long flat desk. The creature probably glowed with a gratitude that amounted to prayer, too, at this moment, but it was premature: for when he started thankfully to travel off, Tom turned him aside with a pin and made him take a new direction. Tom's bosom friend sat next him, suffering just as Tom had been, and now he was deeply and gratefully interested in this entertainment in an instant. This bosom friend was Joe Harper. The two boys were sworn friends all the week, and embattled enemies on Saturdays. Joe took a pin out of his lapel and began to assist in exercising the prisoner. The sport grew in interest momently. Soon Tom said that they were interfering with each other, and neither getting the fullest benefit of the tick. So he put Joe's slate on the desk and drew a line down the middle of it from top to bottom. — Mark Twain

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful. — Susan Estrich

I don't diet. I just don't eat as much as I'd like to. — Linda Evangelista

Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life; the cause of it is moha (illusory vision). — Dada Bhagwan

Art is a business, like any other. — Catherine Stock

A wealthy mindset minimizes expenses in self-entertainment and maximizes investments in self-education. — Orrin Woodward

What is the secret mesmerism which friendship possesses, and under the operation of which a person ordinarily sluggish, or cold, or timid, becomes wise, active, and resolute, in another's behalf? As Alexis, after a few passes from Dr. Elliotson, despises pain, reads with the back of his head, sees miles off, looks into next week, and performs other wonders, of which, in his own private normal condition, he is quite incapable; so you see, in the affairs of the world and under the magnetism of friendships, the modest man becomes bold, the shy confident, the lazy active, or the impetuous prudent and peaceful. What — William Makepeace Thackeray

I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box. — Ryan Adams

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out. — Alva Noto