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Damn it boss, I like you too much not to say it.
You've got everything except one thing: madness!
- the movie Zorba The Greek
Don't expect me to get excited over
another damn thing we need to find.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
- David Farragut
There are three types of lies -
lies, damn lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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My God, this is a hell of a job. I have no trouble with my enemies.
I can take care of my enemies all right.
But my damn friends, my goddamn friends.
They're the ones that keep me walking the floor at night.
- Warren G. Harding
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson 
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin
Where there is an observatory and a telescope,
we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you expect nothing, you can
receive everything as a marvelous gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is important to expect nothing,
to take every experience,
including the negative ones,
as merely steps on the path,
and to proceed.
- Ram Dass
Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs
when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing,
because it can disappear for a long time,
and then pop back up when you least expect it.
- Lemony Snicket
As you discover your daily good,
and believe in it, and think about it,
expect it to continue.
- Ernest Holmes
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect
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To be a beneficial presence in the world,
cultivate a conscious awareness of your unity with Spirit.
Expect good in your own life.
Desire good for all others as well.
See and affirm abundant blessings of peace,
health, and plenty for everyone.
Align your thoughts with peace and happiness,
and realize that these qualities are your true nature.
- Kathy Juline
I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good therefore that I can do,
or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,
let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
Government is a contrivance
of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
People have the right to expect that these wants
will be provided for by this wisdom.
- Jimmy Carter
We are not to expect to be translated from
despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
- Thomas Jefferson
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Do not do unto others
as you expect they should do unto you.
Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems,
for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
It is always a good day to be grateful for all of life -
grateful for large blessings and small.
Especially to be grateful for the symbolic blessings -
the rainbows and butterflies that come into our lives
when we least expect and most need them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How wrong is it for women to expect
the man to build the world she wants,
rather than set out to create it herself.
- Anais Nin
Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
I will reflect the finest qualities my friends offer me
and remind them of all the promise I see in them.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I think one of the finest gifts I can give
my friends in the holiday season is to pause
with a long enough quality to actually SEE them.
My calm, unhurried presence communicates
this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you.
I remember our times of together
and am contributing right now to another quality memory.
I value you and honor and take the time,
right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,
but the gentle touches of air and water
working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
- Henry David Thoreau
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard
A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
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However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin
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
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
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
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have friends in overalls
whose friendship I would not swap
for the favor of the kings of the world.
- Thomas A. Edison
Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero
Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb
Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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
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
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.
A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee
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