Companionably Quotes

#1. I was counting my toes" Stebbins said companionably. "They are fabulously good company because they always add up the same way".

Stephen King

#2. The pessimist can be enraged at wrong; but only the optimist can be surprised at it.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#4. Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting pot of Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The democracy we founded with the Orange Revolution has to be an example for other post-Soviet states.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#5. The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Michael Oxley

#6. The patient accretion of knowledge, the focusing of all one's energies on some problem in history or science, the dogged pursuit of excellence of whatever kind
these are right and proper ideals for life.

Michael Dirda