People Putting Friends Before Family Quotes & Sayings

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day. — Chris Matakas

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit. — Laurell K. Hamilton

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. — Clifford Geertz

I stared at him in stunned silence. This was not the Nathan I knew. The mask was gone, and for the first time I was seeing the true Nathan without any inhibitions. He was raw and lay bare before me.
He was stunning. More beautiful than usual in his agony. — K.I. Lynn

Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality. — Arthur Rothstein

In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve. — Samuel Johnson

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks. — Benjamin E. Mays

Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how strong a feeling of jealousy is in dogs, it would probably be exhibited by infants at any earlier age than just specified if they were tried in a fitting manner — Charles Darwin

From our first breath to our last, we're presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs. — Sharon Salzberg

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. — O. Henry