Friendship Letters Samples Quotes & Sayings

Diana introduced me to Princes William and Harry. Diana just wanted her sons to know what was happening in her life. — Hasnat Khan

And it is you, spirit
with will and energy, and virtue and purity
that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. — Charlotte Bronte

The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
[Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.] — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams. — Seth

So, I looked up, and we were in this giant dome like a glass snowball, and Mark said that the amazing white stars were really only holes in the black glass of the dome, and when you went to heaven, the glass broke away, and there was nothing but a whole sheet of star white, which is brighter than anything but doesn't hurt your eyes. It was vast and open and thinly quiet, and I felt so small. — Stephen Chbosky

There is something horrible about a flower;
This, broken in my hand, is one of those
He threw it in just now; it will not live another hour;
There are thousands more; you do not miss a rose. — Charlotte Mew

The only thing better than great dialogue is the ability to say everything with no dialogue at all. — Adam Levenberg

It's a buzz every time you perform under pressure. — Ian Baker-Finch

Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost causes, Mother Teresa took on battles she knew she could win. Taken together, it seems to me, the criticisms of her work do not undermine or topple her overall achievement. — Bharati Mukherjee

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives. — John Burnside

I think you always have regrets. — Clint Walker

And maybe one winter it will get too cold and I'll forget about the summers we once shared. My family portrait might
fold in too, producing the same horrific effect as Jeremy's: that I, all along, had another sibling who eclipsed and became me - a prosperous sibling, an imposturous sibling, who outgrew a sense of time and place in which the three of us were everything to one another. Then only my blood in the sea could unfold and lead me back out of the origami. — Nicholaus Patnaude

Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure. Why resist that? — Barbara Kingsolver

When you walk into a room," he said softly, "the air changes. — Julia Quinn

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. And also I'm monogamous. — Tracey Emin