Quotes About Cordiality

#1. Courtesty and cordiality are not only not the same, but they are incompatible. Why so? Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality is free.

Anthony Trollope

#2. Everyone gives much more and the receipts are considerable. Typical of American generosity. Their hospitality, their cordiality are like that too, spontaneous and without affectation. It's what's best in them.

Albert Camus

#3. They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes' conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality.

Harper Lee

#4. The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be ... Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.

B.C. Forbes

#5. It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

Octavio Paz

#6. Her entrance was greeted by a general outcry of cordiality that made her mildly ashamed of her cynicism.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ...

Natalie Goldberg

#8. I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

James Brolin

#9. Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. I make money studying natural stupidity.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#10. The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

Taiichi Ohno

#11. Even for people like us - there's always someone who's hungrier. And hunger, well, it comes in different forms." He lowered his head. "I try not to forget that," he finished quietly, looking slightly embarrassed.

Mia Sheridan

#12. Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

J.A. Konrath

#13. Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

Ayn Rand

#14. There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.

Glenn Branca

#15. An eye for an eye won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people.

Robert Farrar Capon

#16. I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

Mayer Hawthorne

#17. No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

John Flavel

#18. Can't you do just a little bit more?
pleading with Nazarenes in the 1930's Great Depression to support their missionaries)

J.G. Morrison

#19. When I count my blessings, it is immeasurable

Lailah Gifty Akita