Close Companion Quotes

#1. A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?

H.M. Forester

#2. We are children of water, and water is death's close companion. The two cannot be separated from us, for we are made of the versatility of water and the closeness of death. They go together always, in the world and in us, and the time will come when our water runs dry.

Emmi Itaranta

#3. To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Aristotle.

#4. The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

#5. Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

Lenny Kravitz

#6. I can't imagine not having a dog as a companion. They know when it's play time or walking time and they know when it is working time and they are content to catch up on their sleep knowing you are close by.

Ted Martinez

#7. Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.

Merrill Brockway

#8. My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#9. To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

Isabelle Adjani

#10. Belief triggers the power to do.

David J. Schwartz

#11. Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion.

Anonymous

#12. Never let money be the reason why you betray your close companion. You may not have the joy to spend it because you are supposed to enjoy that money with that companion you betrayed! Do not love money; love the reason for which money exist.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM
[all snap flags]
Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

Anne Carson

#14. He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend,
a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently
divert and pleasantly entertain himself,
as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.

Isaac Barrow

#15. Should I not hear, as I lie down in dust,
The horns of glory blowing above my burial?

Conrad Aiken

#16. As fear is a close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#17. Life is what you make it.

Grandma Moses

#18. Inside of each of us is greatness let us treat those around us as if they are much more than they appear. Let us treat each other with kindness and respect.

Steffani Raff

#19. The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

#20. What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

Ursula K. Le Guin