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We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
FEAR is an acronym in the English language
for "False Evidence Appearing Real."
- Neale Donald Walsch
One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -
perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.
I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,
"Comparisons are odious."
That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,
and one of the most important.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Writing is a dance with the uncertainties of language.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,
and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Language... has created the word "loneliness"
to express the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude"
to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich
Most of the fundamental ideas of science
are essentially simple,
and may, as a rule, be expressed
in a language comprehensible to everyone.
- Albert Einstein
I personally think we developed language
because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head.
If you talk to him in his language,
that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
The most important words in the English language
are not "I love you" but "It's benign."
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely.
You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
- Henry David Thoreau
Use what language you will,
you can never say anything but what you are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A riot is, at bottom, the language of the unheard.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We don't have a language for the senses.
Feelings are images,
sensations are like musical sounds.
- Anais Nin
I feel impelled to speak today in a language
that in a sense is new-one which I,
who have spent so much of my life in the military profession,
would have preferred never to use.
That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw,
hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
Relevant detail, couched in concrete,
colorful language, is the best way
to recreate the incident as it happened
and to picture it for the audience.
- Dale Carnegie
If what is seen and experienced is portrayed
in the language of logic,
we are engaged in science.
If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible
to the conscious mind but are
recognized intuitively as meaningful,
then we are engaged in art.
- Albert Einstein
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington
There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
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