Nicholas Ling Quotes

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

Nicholas Ling

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• I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Girl

• All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Islam

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College

• I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Doubt

• I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Believe

• A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Friends
  • Loved
  • Accept

• Today's kitchen is all about a well-planned space that makes cooking a completely interactive experience among family and friends.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Friends

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• I don't put a ton of time into my on-stage style, largely because I'm dumb about clothes. But I have friends who are very smart about clothes, and they teach me things. For the show, I'm mainly concerned with feeling comfortable, being able to jump around and get wild.

  

  K. Flay
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Friends
  • Gay
  • Straight

• He's just a contact of hers, which is not the same as a friend. While she was in the hospital she decided that most of her friends were really just contacts.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • She
  • Friends
  • Friend

• I was in an Uber in Vegas with some friends, and 'Don't Let Me Down' came on. My driver didn't recognize me but started to talk about how much he loved Daya and how he had a crush on her.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Friends
  • Crush
  • Vegas

• From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Friends
  • American

• Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Friends

• Every year, I looked forward to Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things episode. I watched with my notebook computer in my lap so I could Google the items and order them for the friends and family on my holiday gift-giving list.

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Giving

• I had to be an adult very quickly and didn't have any friends.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Friends

• Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

  

  David Scott
  • People
  • Friends
  • American

• In my family and among Korean-Americans, there just is no occasion that people would get together without bibimbap. It's something that people eat when they're wanting to celebrate or have a good time with friends.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Father

• I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

  

  John Dingell
  • Great
  • Friends
  • War

• If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Pain
  • Successful
  • Adversity

• I own and operate a ferocious ego.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • Ego

• Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

  

  Nicholas Ling
  • Friends
  • Adversity
  • Prosperity