Transparent Friendship Quotes

#1. Dancing is forbidden to Christians. Isn't it suggestive that the word ballet comes from the Greek ballo, which is also the origin of diabolos, "devil"?8

Peter J. Leithart

#2. Then I will myself to feel nothing at all. It's not helpful to react the way a normal person would. I banish what will interfere with my clinical discipline and reason, I run it off and far away from me. After all these years I'm good at emptying myself out.

Patricia Cornwell

#3. This moment was written in the stars, and it is everything he thought it would be.

Cynthia Hand

#4. Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

George Horace Lorimer

#5. Acquired or artificial prestige is much the most common. The mere fact that an individual occupies a certain position, possesses a certain fortune, or bears certain titles, endows him with prestige, however slight his own personal worth.

Gustave Le Bon

#6. (T)here exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. They sat close to each other, and he told her a story about her eyes. They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids. And her forehead was a snowy mountain, grand and shining. These were lovely stories.

Hans Christian Andersen

#8. The average message is now just over 100 characters - Twitter-sized, in fact.

Christian Rudder

#9. My fear didn't want to be left behind, so it came with me.

Maria Duenas

#10. True friends are very transparent to each other, they don't have hidden agenda and they are not envious of each other's achievements.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. You are so fool worshiping and dreaming her like an angel; while another asshole is banging her right now.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, & political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#13. In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Clare Boothe Luce

#14. Almost all philosophers, in their ethical systems, first lay down a false doctrine, and then argue that wickedness consists in acting in a manner that proves it false, which would be impossible if the doctrine were true.

Bertrand Russell

#15. Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn.

Tim Cahill