Antonin Sertillanges Quotes
Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.
Antonin Sertillanges
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
Sam Houston
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
Vicente Fox
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Namie Amuro
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
J. Paul Getty
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabindranath Tagore
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You blessed my life!Never on me had rested woman's love.My mother even could not find me fair:I had no sister; and, when grown a man,I feared the mistress who would mock at me.But I have had your friendship - grace to youA woman's charm has passed across my path.
Edmond Rostand
The man of Hope, Barack Obama. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.
Hillary Clinton
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Barbara W. Tuchman
The Blue Dogs are all Democrats; they are. And I'll tell you, in terms of wearing the Democratic label, I think they're the true Democrats, because that label usually hurts them when they're running for election.
Jim Matheson
I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.
Banana Yoshimoto
How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.
C. S. Lewis
Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.
Antonin Sertillanges