Hatest Friend Quotes & Sayings

He was a consuming fire. His passion, his desires, all seemed to overtake the
desires of those around him. — Sylvain Reynard

When we love others, we naturally want to talk about them, we want to show them off, like emotional trophies. We invest them with a power to do to others what they do to us; a vain hope, as the lovers of others are rarely of much interest to us. But we listen in patience, as friends must, and as Isabel now did, refraining from comment, other than to encourage the release of the story and the attendant confession of human frailty and hope. — Alexander McCall Smith

As foreign minister I cannot allow myself to be guided by emotions. — Guido Westerwelle

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality. — Mark Ryan

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My aunt had given me these rosary beads that were glow-in-the-dark. So all of a sudden I look down and they're glowing, and I'm looking toward the door and thinking, "Oh, my God, I don't want anything to come though here. I'm not worthy, I'm not ready." I didn't want to be one of those kids who sees Our Lady of Fatima. — Susan Sarandon

My tongue ran over my lower lip and I could taste the sin. It was thick and heavy in the air, and it made my head swim as I gazed into Abel's ocean-colored eyes. I wondered whether he tasted it too, whether his heart was pounding in his chest. I wondered most of all if it was artificial - a haze of adoration brought on by the pills. It had been so long since I'd wanted that; I didn't trust my own thoughts, but if felt too good to care. — Teresa Mummert

Elite fundamentalism has always been on the corporate side of things. — Jeff Sharlet

A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do. — David Papineau

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture. — Jesse Jackson

When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine. — Rob Bell

The most important hour is always the present.
The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now.
The most necessary work is always love. — Meister Eckhart

I think people never hear what they say, and speech is a mocking sound instead of a jazz concert. — Mike Bass

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. — Tony Blair