Short Friendship Poem Quotes & Sayings

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. — Roger Williams

I was happy that I was drafted, and then it was the Yankees and that just made it even better. — Nick Johnson

That old black coat he always wore to preach in was the one he put over her shoulders one evening when they were walking along the road together and he was throwing rocks at the fence posts the way a boy would do, still shy of her. But on a Sunday morning, with the sermon in front of him he'd spent the week on and knew so well he hardly need to look at it, he was a beautiful old man, and it pleased her more than almost anything that she knew the feel of that coat, the weight of it. — Marilynne Robinson

I'm not better than other politicians, but I'm different because I got into the game much later in life, after I had raised a family, after I had written a book, after I had been a successful lawyer. It's different when you get into this business after you've led a full life. I don't want to be a big man. I know who I am. — Mario Cuomo

I burned too bright. I saw too much. — Marianne De Pierres

I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free. — Louise L. Hay

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know? — Michael Caine

I think one has to understand, not as a theory, not as a speculative, entertaining concept, but rather as an actual fact - that we are the world and the world is us. The world is each one of us; to feel that, to be really committed to it and to nothing else, brings about a feeling of great responsibility and an action that must not be fragmentary, but whole. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars is R&B. It's just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last. — Ester Dean

But do not make the mistake, Seraphina, of supposing that suffering ennobles anyone. — Rachel Hartman

He wants to focus on what he calls 'cultural issues.' That makes sense, because when you're going to rob people blind you don't want to have them focus their attention on economic issues. — Noam Chomsky

If you don't know what color to take, take black ... — Pablo Picasso

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights. — Honore De Balzac

I only look forward. I can't get all caught up in what I've done. I still have plenty to accomplish in the game. Hopefully, I'm just scratching the surface. — Alex Rodriguez