Friendly Quotes - Page 34

• If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Nice, Believe

  "Scientists divided over alliance with religion" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2007.

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• Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design. I'm excited to be leading Honolulu in this effort, and I believe that it will be one of the most rewarding things I do as Mayor.

  Kirk Caldwell

  Believe, Successful, Cities

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• I love going to synagogue on Friday night and being swept in the melodies. Everyone seems more friendly and unburdened by the week and ready to be taken elsewhere.

  Erica Brown

  Friday, Taken, Night

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• When Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to his reward - how's that? That's a crack, but I treat Governor Schwarzenegger well in my book. He's done such great work in California; we'll forgive him one personal habit. Everybody should have one not-totally-CO2-friendly habit they can be forgiven for. So we'll forgive him that one.

  Jay Inslee

  Book, California, Should Have

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm, no one wants to be the sore thumb. And I've remained friendly with everyone.

  Robert B. Weide

  Thinking, People, Directors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.

  Frans de Waal

  Strong, Enemy, Groups

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Reflection, Effort

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Illustrated By Arthur Rackham”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Kind, Be Good, Receptionists

  "Huff Post Exclusive Music Download" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and trust to inspire customer loyalty. Chinese brands score low on attributes such as “sophisticated,” “desirable,” “innovative,” “friendly,” and “trustworthy.”

  Nirmalya Kumar

  Loyalty, Emotional, Attachment

  "Can You Name a Chinese Brand?" by Nirmalya Kumar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2013.

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• To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

  Booker T. Washington

  Men, White, Race

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps nothing in all my business has helped me more than faith in my fellow man. From the very first I felt confident that I could trust the great, friendly public. So I told it quite simply what I thought, what I felt, what I was trying to do. And the response was quick, sure, and immediate.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, Trust, Business

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• When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.

  Harold Evans

  Fall, Enemy, Invasion

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2009.

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• The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Government, Violation Of Human Rights

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• We shall take great care not to annoy the horse and spoil his friendly charm, for it is like the scent of a blossom - once lost it will never return

  Antoine de Pluvinel

  Horse, Care, Scent

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• It is so difficult to make a neat job of killing people with whom one is not on friendly terms.

  Robert Hamer

  Jobs, People, Killing

  "Fictional character: Louis Mazzini". "Kind Hearts and Coronets", www.imdb.com. 1949.

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• You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.

  Wilhelm II

  Men, Insults You, Mad

  Remark to the Daily Telegraph. "The Growth of Nationalism: Germany and Italy 1815-1939". Book by Ronald Cameron, Charles Robertson, and Christine Henderson, 1992.

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• Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Taste, Shy

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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• I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?

  Charles Lamb

  Spiritual, Book, Reading

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.108

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• One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.

  Charlotte Beers

  Mistake, Enough, Biggest Mistake

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• UNIX is a user-friendly operating system.
  It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

  David Wolfe

  Operating Systems, Unix, Picks

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• The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'

  Andrei Codrescu

  Real, Nice, Thinking

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• The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Desert, Purpose, Use

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.59, e-artnow

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• People meet writers and are bowled over when the writer is friendly to them and invites them to his house for a glass of wine or to shoot up heroin or whatever they do, and they talk their heads off, and a year later it comes out in a book, and there follow years of bitter and fruitless litigation, and that is why you should always keep a writer at arm's length.

  Garrison Keillor

  Book, Wine, Glasses

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• I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.

  Matt Nix

  Children, Character, Kids

  Source: deadline.com

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