Transparent Friendship Quotes & Sayings

How darkness infects those among us who can't resist a juicy tale. — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart. — Kim Edwards

True friends are very transparent to each other, they don't have hidden agenda and they are not envious of each other's achievements. — Euginia Herlihy

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality. — Iyanla Vanzant

I started as a director and just fell upon acting. — Danny Huston

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods. — David Small

I try to stay away from the more schmaltzy side of things. That can backfire quickly. — James Wolk

And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. — Heinrich Heine

When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be. — Ram Dass

(T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time. — Vladimir Nabokov

He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. Nay, the very incident which, by my theory, must in some degree estrange me and him, changed, indeed, somewhat our relations; but not in the sense I painfully anticipated. An invisible, but a cold something, very slight, very transparent, but very chill: a sort of screen of ice had hitherto, all through our two lives, glazed the medium through which we exchanged intercourse. Those few warm words, though only warm with anger, breathed on that frail frost-work of reserve; about this time, it gave note of dissolution. I think from that day, so long as we continued friends, he never in discourse stood on topics of ceremony with me. — Charlotte Bronte

Politics doesn't require talent, intelligence, or good looks. Truly, someone like Donald Rumsfeld, a mediocre government functionary with no discernible talent, intelligence, or charm, is a greater international celebrity than Mick Jagger. Rumsfeld, despite being a has-been, is known in every corner of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa for his insanity and arrogance, while Jagger is admired by a mere couple hundred million music enthusiasts, huddled mostly in the First World. — Ian F. Svenonius