"It is one thing to be sick of……" — Leif Enger
"It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world."
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31 Quotes by Leif Enger
Leif Enger has 31 quotes on this site.
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Hope is like yeast, you know, rising under warmth.
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You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of…
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Once torched by truth...a little thing like faith is easy.
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Routine is worry's sly assassin.
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Fair is whatever God wants to do.
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Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature. It's true: They rebut every rule all we…
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We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit…
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Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can…
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I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.
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Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.
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Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.
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My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring…
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More Friendless Quotes
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one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal,…
— Glenn Beck
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes…
— Laozi
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If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
— Rumi
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If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average…
— Eugene V. Debs
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If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town…
— Ransom Riggs
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Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
— Samuel Johnson
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Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?
— Phil Ochs
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Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a…
— Douglas Malloch
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Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
— Herman Melville
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