Worthless Friendship Quotes & Sayings

Learning is the discovery that something is possible — Frederick Salomon Perls

Being involved in competition is a privilege and an opportunity. Seek to make the most of that opportunity by pushing yourself to the limit of your abilities. When it is over, you will have earned the respect of your opponents, your coaches, and yourself. — Tony La Russa

The friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and actually become bad through each other's influence). But the friendship of the good is good, and increases in goodness because of their association. They seem even to become better men by exercising their friendship and improving each other; for the traits that they admire in each other get transferred to themselves. — Aristotle.

Can you imagine, in a world so afraid of otherness, why this would be a danger to all peculiar-kind? — Ransom Riggs

To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of paste, and separate the grain from the chaff - gossamer words, that weigh nothing, from substantial realities heavier than gold. — Edward John Trelawny

We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells. — Victoria Lincoln

I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal. — John B. S. Haldane

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt. — John Ringo

We won't know for a few years. — Stephen Hawking

For to a boy it can seem
that he shall never have what he alone
has never had. — Pier Paolo Pasolini

Since God writes history as man writes words, the literal events of history can be signs of other truths just as human words are signs of things other than themselves. — Peter Kreeft

Don't be afraid to hit the ball. — Billie Jean King

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field. — Howard Gardner

I am ashamed of how I acted that day, ashamed of endangering your body. But I am not ashamed because I am a bad father, a bad individual or ill mannered. I am ashamed that I made an error, knowing that our errors always cost us more. — Ta-Nehisi Coates