Alexander Nehamas Quotes

My own view is that friendship is essential to our becoming who we are. It provides a context within which we can, more or less safely, try different ways of being, different approaches to life, and our friends, to whom we open ourselves and by whom we are willing to be influenced and directed, play a central role in what becomes of us.

Alexander Nehamas

Quotes to Explore

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Harry Browne
- Children
- Family
- Free
You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

C. Everett Koop
- You
- Talk
- Snake
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

Magic Johnson
- People
- Bad
- Magic
Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

Harlan Coben
- Up
- Work
- Why
As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

Walter Dean Myers
- Time
- Heart
- Years