Best Companions Quotes
304 Companions quotes by 240 unique authors
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It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it.…
— Benjamin Tucker
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With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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For spiritual companions I have had the many artists who have relied on nature to help shape their imagination. And their most elaborate equipment was…
— Sam Abell
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable of suffering as…
— Peter Singer
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Man is the sole animal whose nudities offend his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . . When Arjuna thus…
— Juan Mascaro
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Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must…
— Winston Churchill
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I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
— Robert Kennedy
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If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated…
— George Sand
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I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must…
— Boethius
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We all had such larks. Yes, it was hard work but the friendships and the genuine respect we had for one another, that side I…
— Peter O'Toole
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I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place. We are…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of…
— George Washington
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Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
— Jonathan Lethem
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I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs…
— Niki Lauda
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
— Pierre Charron
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.
— William Sloane Coffin
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Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
— Laurence Shames
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For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their…
— Plato
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On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the…
— Gautama Buddha
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Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what…
— Unknown Author
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Then the Warrior of the Light thanks his traveling companions, takes a deep breath and continues on, laden with memories of an unforgettable journey.
— Paulo Coelho
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He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.
— Paulo Coelho
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