Friendly Quotes - Page 14

• I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Book, Stuff

  Maria Dahvana Headley (2015). “Magonia”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

  Rita Rudner

  Growing Up, Father, Home

  Rita Rudner (1993). “Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature”, Penguin Group USA

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• By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

  Washington Irving

  Kindness, Eye, Discipline

  Washington Irving (1897). “The Works of Washington Irving...: Illustrated”

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• whenever possible I avoid talking. Reprieve from talking is my idea of a holiday. At risk of seeming unsociable, which I am, I admit I love to be left in a beatific trance, when I am in one. Friendly Romans recognize that wish.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Holiday, Talking, Ideas

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• it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Favors, Easier

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.240, ShandonPress

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• A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Friendship, Men, Reflection

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.50

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• If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.

  Margaret Atwood

  Littles, Today, Stranger

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

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• To make the world a friendly place, one must show it a friendly face.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  World, Faces, Shows

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• Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give a friendly welcome to newcomers. One of the disagreeable traits of our human nature seems to be to dislike on sight people who come later than the first settlers.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Sight, Long, People

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”

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• while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Our Lives, Seems

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• Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Silence, Passionate, Hateful

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• How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

  Teresa of Avila

  Honor, Should, Ifs

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1972). “General introduction. Life. Spiritual relations”

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• Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

  Laurie Colwin

  Food, Missing, Cooking

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• I was in Nashville and I was having just the most amazing time there, discovering who I was as an artist because that is such a music city. Everyone there is so friendly and inspiring and down to jam.

  Lisa Origliasso

  Artist, Nashville, Cities

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

  Fanny Burney

  Evil, Mind, Sometimes

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

  Tove Jansson

  Friendship, Impossible

  Tove Jansson (2003). “Tales from Moominvalley”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Reading, People, Pages

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.87

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• The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world. You can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live.

  Donald Tsang

  People, World, Hong Kong

  "CE speaks at Business for Clean Air' Joint Conference". www.info.gov.hk. November 27, 2006.

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• I've always been proud to represent my country, whether it be World Cups, European Championships or just friendly games, I've always been a proud person, I'm very patriotic.

  David Beckham

  Country, Patriotic, Games

  "David Beckham interview - Why I'm not ready to finish playing yet". Interview with Paul Vercammen, www.totalfootballmag.com.

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• Really, one has some friends, and when one comes to think about it it is impossible to tell how one ever became friendly with them.

  Francoise Mallet-Joris

  Thinking, Impossible

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• You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Intelligent, Thinking, Bird

  Elizabeth Aston (2007). “The Second Mrs. Darcy: A Novel”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• There were definitely bands and musicians I liked that drove my mother insane. I probably liked them all the more for it! Bjork drove my mom nuts. What I listened to was actually pretty mom-friendly for the most part. I wasn't very rebellious.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Mom, Mother, Nuts

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• Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.

  Horace

  Helping, One Thing, Assistance

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• God help anyone who disobeys my recycling system. I have all the separated bins. I'm very adamant about it because I try to be a good citizen of the world, I really do. I even use eco-friendly cleaning products, but sometimes you just have to break open the disinfectant. Some jobs require it.

  Linda Evangelista

  Jobs, Trying, Citizens

  "This much I know". Interview With Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2005.

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• Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

  Lubos Motl

  Roots, Tree, Google

  "https://motls.blogspot.ru/2009/09/czech-poland-missile-defense-system.html". motls.blogspot.ru. September 17, 2009.

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