Quotes & Sayings About Friendship From Famous Books

Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Everyone got bitterness in his chosen thing. It might be in the end that the chosen thing that the chosen thing in itself is bitterness because to arrive at the chosen thing needs courage, because it's intense, and intensity is what the feeble humanity of us can't take for long. And also the chosen thing can't be one that we already have, since what we already have there isn't much use or respect for. — Saul Bellow

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm. — Barbara Mikulski

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding. — Anatoly Chubais

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass

Aim at being loved without being admired. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on. — Christian Marclay

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor. — Charlotte Bronte

Maisie was next, and stepped up to vote. She wondered how many hands had trembled already today, holding their pencils over the ballots, with all the little boxes. Did most women take to their new, belated right with aplomb, or did they take their time, marveling over the beauty of it all, the silent speech that would be heard?
Or did they think, like she did, that there was a long queue behind her and she had to get to work.
She wrote a thick X, drew over it twice, and dropped the paper in the ballot box.
That's how you spell a shout. With an X. — Sarah Jane Stratford

It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on. — Jeff Vespa

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. — Thomas De Quincey

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman. — Vivienne Westwood

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. — Terence McKenna