Raymond Chandler Quotes

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

Raymond Chandler

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• Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Life
  • Work
  • Night

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Beautiful

• My life was pretty rough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World

• Metal music is the only art form that is totally dependent for its success on the idea that idiots buy cheap trash are getting ripped off.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Music
  • Art
  • Success

• I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Great
  • Money

• I'm told sometimes I look like Goldie Hawn, and I get chuffed about that.

  

  Bonnie Tyler

• If I am offered good roles, I will definitely be back in Malayalam, anytime.

  

  Keerthy Suresh
  • Good

• We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

  

  David Milne
  • Design

• Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life, growth, and development.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

  

  David Cameron
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Done

• The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Important
  • Humanity
  • Brave

• It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

  

  Douglas Hurd
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I grew up watching Dr. J, and I was like, 'Oh my God, this guy is the greatest basketball player I ever saw.'

  

  John McEnroe
  • Up
  • God
  • Guy

• Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus

• I want to defend and put my title on the line as much as possible. If the top in the division are ready to try to come and take my belt - and the key word is 'try' - I'm ready to give them that opportunity.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Opportunity

• In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.

  

  James Franco
  • Friends
  • Respect

• Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

  

  John Marshall Harlan
  • Color

• Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • May
  • Reading
  • Trust

• Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Work
  • Americans
  • Dollars

• Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Violence
  • Facts
  • Resistance

• The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Mean
  • Forever
  • Broke