Norman Maclean Quotes

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

Norman Maclean

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• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Christian
  • Silent
  • Agenda

• As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • Enemy

• I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Try

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• Who else is the enemy of Nature but he who mistakes himself for more intelligent than Nature, though it is the highest school for all of us?

  

  Paracelsus
  • School
  • Nature
  • Enemy

• Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • May
  • Character
  • Serious

• When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Up
  • Real
  • Experience

• When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back.

  

  Emily Bett Rickards
  • Relationship
  • Friendship

• The greatest enemy one ever faces is one's own self.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Enemy

• It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Him

• Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Friend

• What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

  

  Jean Anouilh
  • Life
  • Enemy

• As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'

  

  Duke of Wellington
  • Hope
  • Enemy

• As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This charity is essential in missionary work, but we must never allow ourselves to treat our neighbors only as potential converts. We have had the sad experience of seeing members of the Church who attempted to convert their neighbors and friends and, when they did not respond, withdrew their friendship and neighborliness. We must not be so anxious to share the gospel that we become insensitive to the feelings of others.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Friends

• I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Friendship

• No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Enemy

• There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Party
  • Crazy
  • Environment

• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Up
  • May

• I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'

  

  Elizabeth Meriwether
  • People
  • She
  • Job

• Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Cry
  • Owl

• Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.

  

  Bruce Johnston
  • Cousin

• Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

  

  Norman Maclean
  • Enemy
  • Friendship
  • Silent