Friendly Quotes
828 quotes by 668 authors
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There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.
— Thomas Hardy
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Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse…
— James A. Baldwin
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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
— Albert Einstein
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...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch…
— Toni Morrison
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Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel…
— Brandon Sanderson
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In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure…
— Woody Allen
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On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have…
— Sebastian Horsley
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I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:…
— Edith Sitwell
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The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This…
— Gao Xingjian
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whats here a cup closed in my true loves hand poisin i see hath been his timeless end. oh churl drunk all and left no…
— William Shakespeare
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It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?" For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic…
— Julia Quinn
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Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of…
— Jane Austen
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The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth…
— E L Konigsburg
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I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.†—Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to…
— Chuck Klosterman
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SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and…
— Pascal Mercier
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