Friendly Quotes - Page 19

• But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

  A. A. Milne

  Bye, Forests, Bears

  A. A. Milne (2011). “The House at Pooh Corner”, p.5, Egmont UK

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• You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Summer, Women, Firefly

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• My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafés where they like me and cafés where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.

  Jean Rhys

  Nice, Simple, Glasses

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• There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

  Keith Richards

  Teamwork, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards, 2010.

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• The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Believe, Inspiration

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• Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Fundamentals, May

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.107, Routledge

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• We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed in war are now described as collateral damage and military incompetence leading to US bombers killing British soldiers is cosily described as friendly fire. Those who are in favour of peace are described as mavericks and troublemakers, whereas the real militants are those who want the war.

  Tony Benn

  Peace, Military, Real

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• We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Determination, Peace, Humble

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• The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheist, Attitude, Reality

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The deep pain that is felt
  at the death of every friendly soul
  arises from the feeling that there is
  in every individual something
  which is inexpressible,
  peculiar to him alone,
  and is, therefore,
  absolutely and irretrievably lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Pain

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press

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• All of a sudden, space isn't friendly. All of a sudden, it's a place where people can die. . . . Many more people are going to die. But we can't explore space if the requirement is that there be no casualties; we can't do anything if the requirement is that there be no casualties.

  Isaac Asimov

  Space, People, Safety

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• All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Uplifting, Feelings

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• When you're experiencing peace, it's coming from within you; you're 'doing' peace and this is true of anything else you might be looking for. Love, happiness, contentment, well-being come from within. Nothing external needs to change for you to have what you want.....If you want to be happier - be happier. If you want to be more relaxed - relax. If you want more friends - be friendly. Sounds simple. It is.

  Cheri Huber

  Yoga, Simple, Contentment

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• In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Adversity, Hands

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Important, Occupy Movement

  "Networks Embrace Buffett's Call for Higher Taxes on 'Mega-Rich,' ABC Salivates Over Spending It". Article by Brent Baker, www.mrc.org. August 16, 2011.

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• Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm always trying to be my best, first for my team, for myself, for the fans, and to try and win.

  Lionel Messi

  Sports, Football, Team

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• The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism.

  Mitch McConnell

  Change, Long, President

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• I play with friends, but we don't play friendly games.

  Ben Hogan

  Funny, Golf, Games

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• Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment.

  Hans-Peter Durr

  Creativity, Acceptance, Technology

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• If anybody ever called our number, it would be picked up in less than 2 rings with a friendly voice answering, CD Baby. From 7 am to 10 pm, there was always somebody to pick up a call in 2 rings. No voice mail system; no routing to different departments. We treated our customers like our best friends. You don't route your best friend's call to an automated system!

  Derek Sivers

  Baby, Educational, Pms

  "Insight into CD Baby's Customer Support". Interview with Nithya Rajaram, supportbee.com. June 14, 2011.

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• Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Done, Loyal

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• Onstage I'm always different than offstage. I can be very friendly offstage, but onstage I will pull one trick after another on my competition to wipe him out, you know-because it's my living and I have to win. Franco is my best friend, but I will do as much as I can to make him look bad and make me look good.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Motivation

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• We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

  Barton Seaver

  Ocean, Technology, Shrimp

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• In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, Reality

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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