Minnie Maddern Fiske Quotes

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .

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• Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

  

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

• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  

  Sallust
  • Opinion
  • Friendship
  • Anger

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friendship
  • Two
  • Pity

• 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

• Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Personality
  • Friendship

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Feel
  • Members
  • Brand

• Value your friendship. Value your relationships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Value
  • Friendship
  • Your

• A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Man
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Dangerous
  • Copy

• Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Family
  • Members
  • Accused

• It is time to realize that neither socialism, nor friendship, nor good-neighborliness, nor respect can be produced by bayonets, tanks or blood.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Time
  • Good
  • Respect

• On her fallout with Abhishek Bachchan The truth is if someone chooses not to invite you to their wedding you realize where you stand with that person. You may be deluded and think you are friends but maybe that friendship was only extended as co-stars on the sets. It doesn't matter. It became very clear to me that we were only co-stars not friends.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • May
  • Truth
  • Friends

• I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Death
  • Friendship

• We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Friendship

• Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Heart
  • Power
  • Friends

• Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Members
  • Corrupt
  • Incompetent

• I learned that a real friendship is not about what you can get, but what you can give. Real friendship is about making sacrifices and investing in people to help them improve their lives.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Friendship
  • Learned
  • Improve

• Well, all I can say is that people know I'm not saying anything out of malice.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People

• Sometimes I surprise myself with how dissatisfied I am with seemingly satisfying experiences.

  

  Ezra Koenig
  • Experiences
  • Surprise
  • Dissatisfied

• Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Friendship
  • Dangerous
  • Members