Simile Friendship Quotes & Sayings

I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it. — Elizabeth Lesser

Remember when you told your sister how scared you were of monsters under your bed? Hah. Hah! She scared you good when she hid under there and jumped out when you got up to go pee after the lights were turned off that night! — L.R.W. Lee

I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us ... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the successive shrines open one. — Howard Carter

When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors. You just sit living and reliving other lives left behind in the thought records.
Vina, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), Star Trek, 1966 — Gene Roddenberry

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out. — R. C. Sherriff

Birthdays, like weddings, anniversaries, baptisms, bar mitzvahs, wakes, are occasions to retie family ties, renew family feuds, restore family feeling, add to family lore, tribalize the psyche, generate guilt, exercise power, wave a foreign flag, talk in tongues, exchange lies, remember dates and the old days, to be fond of how it was, be angry at what it should be, and weep at why it isn't. — William H Gass

Why isn't a bra called a booby-trap? — Lynne Parker

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol