Companion Quotes - Page 35

• Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history.  It is the companion that dogs our every step.

  Alain Finkielkraut

  Dog, Inheritance, Steps

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• Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

  Chanakya

  Bad Friend, Light, Secret

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• My captain once said that you meet people in your life who you believe will be your companions on the road, only to discover that they fall by the wayside. Others who you meet without design climb mountains with you.

  Sally Gardner

  Believe, Fall, People

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• Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

  Elaine Scarry

  Real, Land, Bird

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.86, Princeton University Press

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• Mobile isn’t just a media channel, it’s her constant companion that makes juggling easier. It makes her feel like a better mom.

  Tina Sharkey

  Mom, Media, Easier

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• Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is too great to have the blessings of an eternal marriage. By making and keeping sacred temple covenants, we evidence our love for God, for our companion, and our real regard for our posterity-even those yet unborn. Our family is the focus of our greatest work and joy in this life; so will it be throughout all eternity.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Husband, Real, Sacrifice

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• The autumn hill gathers the remaining light, A flying bird chases after its companion. The green color is bright And brings me into the moment, like a sunset mist that has no fixed place.

  Wang Wei

  Summer, Sunset, Autumn

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• A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Book, Blessed, Heart

  "A Man Made of Money".

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• Worthy books
  Are not companions – they are solitudes:
  We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

  Philip James Bailey

  Book, Solitude, Care

  Philip James Bailey (1848). “Beauties of Festus”, p.20

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• I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the day came from a large but shapely woman sitting nearby whom I learned was the owner of a local lingerie shop. 'Beh oui,' she said to her companion, waving her spoon for emphasis, 'il faut du temps pour la corsetterie.' You can't argue with that. I made a mental note not to rush things next time I was shopping for a corset, and leaned back to allow the waiter through with the next course.

  Peter Mayle

  Shopping, People, Sitting

  FaceBook post by Peter Mayle from Nov 26, 2011

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• Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.

  Philip Gambone

  Lonely, Sweet, Art

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• The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, Change, Loneliness

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• People will not be bored. They may listen politely at a dinner table to boasts and personalities, life history, etc. But in print they choose their own companions, their own subjects. They was to be amused or benefitted

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Bored, People, Personality

  Claude C. Hopkins (2010). “Scientific Advertising”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There once was a child, and he strolled about a good deal, and thought of a number of things. He had a sister, who was a child too, and his constant companion. These two used to wonder all day long. They wondered at the beauty of the flowers; they wondered at the height and blueness of the sky; they wondered at the depth of the bright water; they wondered at the goodness and the power of God who made the lovely world.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Flower, Sky

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Old Curiosity Shop”, p.238

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• Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Shy, Aptitude

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

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• It's not the breed that makes a good companion. All dogs are great companions.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog

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• Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Men, Self

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.974, GENERAL PRESS

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• I have become so accustomed to think "scientifically" that I am afraid even to imagine that there may be something else beyond the outer covering of life. I feel like a man condemned to death, whose companions have been hanged and who has already become reconciled to the thought that the same fate awaits him.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Fate, Men, Thinking

  P. D. Ouspensky (2012). “A New Model of the Universe”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next to be drenched in sleep or in the sea. Pencils and pads and curling blue sheets alive with letters heap up on the desk.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Writing, Sleep, Blue

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• Looking at my life
  I see that only Love
  Has been my soul’s companion
  From deep inside
  My soul cries out:
  Do not wait, surrender
  For the sake of Love.

  Rumi

  Waiting, Soul, Sake

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• A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey.

  Publilius Syrus

  Journey, Length, Pleasant

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• O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.

  Meera

  Death, Comfort, Illusion

  Mirabai, “That Dark Dweller In Braj”

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• Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Music, Prayer, Children

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• I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.

  Mother Angelica

  Struggle, Dying, Able

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• When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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