Friendship Double Meaning Quotes & Sayings

Always at home. - One day we reach our goal, and now point with pride to the long travels we undertook to reach it. In fact, we were not even aware of traveling. But we got so far because we fancied at every point that we were at home. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is like that. You set out to make one thing and make another. — Marty Rubin

He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He could not even make himself stretch out his hand to switch on the light. The simple transition from intention to action seemed an unimaginable miracle. — Vladimir Nabokov

If we would see others as they see themselves, our shyness would soon become compassion. — Robert Breault

No matter who you were in sixteenth-century Europe, you could be sure of two things: you would be lucky to reach fifty years of age, and you could expect a life of discomfort and pain. Old age tires the body by thirty-five, Erasmus lamented, but half the population did not live beyond the age of twenty. There were doctors and there was medicine, but there does not seem to have been a great deal of healing. Anyone who could afford to seek a doctor's aid did so eagerly, but the doctor was as likely to maim or kill as to cure. His potions were usually noxious and sometimes fatal - but they could not have been as terrible and traumatic as the contemporary surgical methods. The surgeon and the Inquisitor differed only in their motivation: otherwise, their batteries of knives, saws, and tongs for slicing, piercing, burning, and amputating were barely distinguishable. Without any anesthetic other than strong liquor, an operation was as bad as the torments of hell. — Philip Ball

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better. — Cy Coleman

I have always had the sea as my playground. — Alexander Dale Oen

People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather. — Pauline Quirke

To duplicate meanings is to isolate the consciousness. — Floriano Martins