Christina Stead Quotes

By smiling, we turn devils into angels, enemies into friends; the cup of poison becomes the loving cup.

Christina Stead

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

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Friends
  • You
  • See

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Friends
  • Military
  • September

• I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Friends
  • Me
  • New York

• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Money
  • Friends

• 'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Couple

• Elvis and I continued to be friends, and I saw him once or twice a year. But he was a troubled person.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Friends
  • Year
  • Him

• 'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

  

  W. L. George
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Enemies

• I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Country
  • Done

• I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends

• My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Friends

• We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Friends
  • Football
  • Famous

• 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

• You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Life
  • School
  • Friends

• To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

  

  Ricky Nelson
  • Friends
  • Memories

• I love to work. When I was a kid, I would invite my friends over to play, then I would take them over to a recycling plant and we would haul glass all day. They hated me for this, but I thought it was fun.

  

  James Marsters
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Fun

• Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Successful

• I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Friends
  • Arguments
  • Papers

• We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.

  

  Martin Filler
  • Art
  • Past

• All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

  

  Jesus Christ
  • Up
  • Single

• By smiling, we turn devils into angels, enemies into friends; the cup of poison becomes the loving cup.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Friends
  • Enemies
  • Angels