Quotes & Sayings About Friendship In All Quiet On The Western Front

Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And barbarism must always ultimately triumph. — Anonymous

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. — Mason Cooley

There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics. — William Stanley Jevons

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too. — Jimmy Smith

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times. — Lucy Powell

Necessity makes an honest man a knave. — Daniel Defoe

Szilard encouraged me to apply for a postdoc position at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, though he knew I might work on nuclear weapons eventually. My job interview with Teller was both stimulating and unnerving; at the end of it, I suspected Teller understood my thesis better than I did. It was also terrifying; I had no warning who would interview me. — Gregory Benford

A first meeting. A meeting in the desert, a meeting at sea, meeting in the city, meeting at night, meeting at a grave, meeting in the sunshine beside the forest, beside water. Human beings meet, yet the meetings are not the same. Meeting partakes in its very essence not only of the persons but of the place of meeting. And that essence of place remains, and colours, faintly, the association, perhaps forever.
Ethel Wilson, Swamp Angel. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1990 (page 95). — Ethel Wilson