The Company We Keep Quotes

#1. We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards

#2. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Alain De Botton

#3. Use more caution the next time you make a reading selection. Books, you know, are a lot like people, and each and every one of us is ultimately judged by the company we keep

Ethan Russell Erway

#4. We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#5. One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the company we keep.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. Unbeknownst to a lot of us, our children actually listen to just about everything we say and, even more so, watch everything we do. They notice the choices we make and the company we keep.

Tom Carper

#7. Our goodness, our badness all develop from social experience, the company we keep, the things we're taught when we're young. We start with a clean slate. It's everyone else who fucks us up.

S. Walden

#8. I promise to keep my hands, tongue, and other body parts to myself. You risk your life by staying home. It's late and we're both too wiped out to go climbing into the People's lair tonight. What do you risk by coming with me?"
"A huge migraine from being in your company.

Ilona Andrews

#9. Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

Patrick Rothfuss

#10. If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.

Brunello Cucinelli

#11. I have to have the sensibility to keep Versace company in good shape because there are so many people working for it, and we need to have the company grow and also be relevant. So I work very hard for all that to happen, and I wish people would know me for that and be satisfied.

Nicki Minaj

#12. We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character, so called, are the ones who end up boring us to death.

Thomas Bernhard

#13. Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Chanakya

#14. I can't get rid of the sadness," Laronne said.
"Well," David said, "then we'll just keep it company.

Heidi Durrow

#15. We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

Akio Morita

#16. Like a faint haze it floats around us. We keep company with ghosts. Their graves are marked in our minds, and they will never be disinterred from the cemeteries of our remembrance.

Thomas Ligotti

#17. If you're thinking of acquiring a company and want to keep it a secret, tell everyone in the company; let them all in on the truth. Say, 'Listen, if this gets out, we'll probably lose the deal, so we're all in this together.'

Biz Stone

#18. Because whether we're in the middle of the desert or in the heart of a city, or the top of a mountain or on an underground train: having good stories to keep us company means the whole world.

Jen Campbell

#19. We are so lonely here, with only our loved ones for company. We kill, maim, insult our loved ones, or dream of doing so, to keep from going mad. And then disaster strikes. God, how we love disaster.

Jincy Willett

#20. Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

Charles Spurgeon

#21. Some would argue that you're as successful as the company you keep. Certainly there is a connection between our friends and who we are.

Simon Sinek

#22. I didn't come looking for an apology, Jesper. You have a weak spot. We all have weak spots."
"What's yours?"
"The company I keep," she said with a slight smile.

Leigh Bardugo

#23. In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's intentions toward us are good.

Adele Ahlberg Calhoun

#24. By trusting on God's understanding and knowledge, we learn to keep the company of good people who bring out the best qualities of love, hope and faith within ourselves.

Tasha Hoggatt

#25. As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago?

Jon Oringer

#26. We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

Joan Didion

#27. The illusion of companionship sits waiting in the television set. We keep our televisions on more than we watch them - an average of more than seven hours a day. For background. For company.

Louise Bernikow

#28. The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

Charles Koch