Hard Times Will Always Reveal True Friends Quotes & Sayings

No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community. — Wyclef Jean

No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing. — Samuel Johnson

I gave my wife a kiss this morning. She jumped out of bed and did a lap of honour. — Frank Carson

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three. — Laurence Housman

You may not have the control to lengthen your life, but you can do much to deepen it. — Frank Sonnenberg

I felt like a leaf falling from a tree and he was the wind whispering, I've got you. — Jewel E. Ann

You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem. — Henry Cloud

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. — Plato

If you tried to sell Mike Birbiglia as a concept, no one would buy it. — Mike Birbiglia

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere. — Henny Youngman

As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer's ordeal signified that the postwar "messianic role of the scientists" was now at an end. — Kai Bird

Why is it that people talk about death, as if it is a part of life, when it is entirely separate? Someone passes on into the never ending void, where the living aren't allowed. We can't see, hear, touch or feel those who have succumbed to the eternal sleep, but we comfort ourselves with thoughts of a grander plan. We tell ourselves that they are in a better place, but what could be greater than breathing the same air, as those loved ones? Their pain may be gone, but pleasure can only be when it is stark against the hurt that life brings? — J.D. Stroube

Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.'
Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it.'
But her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. Many of the comfort objects, like Lily's, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. Jonas's had been called a bear.
Here you are, Lily-billy,' he said. 'I'll come help you remove your hair ribbons. — Lois Lowry

If you've 'eard the East a-callin', why you won't 'eed nothin' else.
No! you won't 'eed nothin' else, but them spicy garlic smells, an' the sunshine an' the palm trees, an' the tinkly temple-bells. — Rudyard Kipling