Quotes About Being A Backup Friend

#1. Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

Rene Descartes

#2. A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

Jakob Bohme

#3. diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I

Mark Twain

#4. Sometimes if I really want to get someone's attention, I'll start a sentence with something like, "I'm not racist, but ... " I say, "I'm not racist, but you look great today." They say, "That wasn't racist at all." I said, "I know. I said I'm not racist. You never listen. Typical Mexican."

Demetri Martin

#5. Make your life a prayer. Live your mediation.

Reba Riley

#6. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body. James 3:2

Beth Moore

#7. Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

Pascual Jordan

#8. Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

Pope Francis

#9. What it has meant to stay alive when my daughter did not. What it has meant to suffer a heartbeat after carrying the weight and form of her inside my body, wedged just beneath that fist-shaped muscle.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#10. My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.

Ed O'Neill

#11. Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

Franz Grillparzer

#13. Although it was pointless, I prayed that Julian would suddenly have flown to the Antarctic to live in a penguin colony. Or that he'd just say no. After all, it was he who'd been so emphatic that we should move on. He did neither.

Lucy Robinson

#14. Most reputable scientists agree that climate change is real and that the effects are likely to be bad. But nobody can say for sure exactly what 'bad' means. The safest and most equitable way out of this horrific mess is simple: cut fossil-fuel emissions.

Michael Specter

#15. Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

Edwin Schlossberg