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You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
- William J. Clinton
Related topics: Values
Nothing big ever came from being small.
- William J. Clinton
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton
We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton
Let me say this as clearly as I can:
No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt,
there is no justification for killing innocents.
- William J. Clinton
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.
- William J. Clinton
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
In the new economy, information, education,
and motivation are everything.
- William J. Clinton
When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web...
Now even my cat has its own page.
- William J. Clinton
I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most...
I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.
- William J. Clinton
There is nothing wrong with America
that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
- William J. Clinton
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
When we make college more affordable,
we make the American dream more achievable.
- William J. Clinton
Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think,
and that's the time when they most need to think.
- William J. Clinton
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
Let us all take more responsibility,
not only for ourselves and our families, but
for our communities and our country.
- William J. Clinton
The new rage is to say that the government
is the cause of all our problems,
and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems.
I can tell you, that contradicts
evidence, history, and common sense.
- William J. Clinton
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
- William J. Clinton
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous
A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb
Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis
If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous
What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane
A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow
A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering
Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
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