Friendliness Quotes - Page 4

• The first thing you must do is forget that I'm Black. Second, you must never forget that I'm Black.

  Pat Parker

  Tolerance, Black, Firsts

  Pat Parker (1999). “An Expanded Edition of Movement in Black”

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• The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

  E. B. White

  Kindness, Feelings, Rodents

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.170, Cornell University Press

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• Clark Gable was the epitome of the movie star - so romantic, such bearing, such friendliness.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Stars, Epitome, Movie Star

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• With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind Shall never don again its green array. Chapel and fireside, country road and bay, Have something of their friendliness resigned; Another, if I would, I could not find, And I am grown much older in a day. But yet I treasure in my memory Your gift of charity, and young hearts ease, And the dear honour of your amity; For these once mine, my life is rich with these. And I scarce know which part may greater be,-- What I keep of you, or you rob from me.

  George Santayana

  Country, Memories, Heart

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.484, Indiana University Press

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• Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling, of not being able to get what one wants, or even name it properly (or consistently) to oneself — these can be, it is felt they ought to be, masked by friendliness, or the most scrupulous manipulation.

  Susan Sontag

  Names, Feelings, Want

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• It's one thing to be a high achiever; it's quite another to privately sneer at your girlfriend's friends after feigning friendliness because they have the "misfortune" to drive a bus for a living.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Girlfriend, Bus, Achiever

  "I Think She's in Love". Live chat, www.slate.com. February 2, 2016.

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• In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.

  Edward Hirsch

  Trying, Connections, Pages

  "How to Read a Poem". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

  Emma Thompson

  Mean, Two, Fields

  "Hugh Laurie". Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Nice, Kind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Expression, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.279, Delphi Classics

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• 'Bloody' has now become an important indicator of Australianness and of cultural values such as friendliness, informality, laid-backness, mateship - and perhaps even the Australian dislike and distrust of verbal and intellectual graces

  Kate Burridge

  Grace, Intellectual, Important

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• Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Protection, Ahimsa

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• My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Attitude, Language, British

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• As far as I'm concerned, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future. BMW, like no other brand, will still stand for vitality and driving pleasure in the future. But it will also represent efficiency and environmental friendliness.

  Norbert Reithofer

  Bmw, Environmental, Vitality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

  Ted Nelson

  Morning, Simple, Friendly

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• The strongest inpression remaining with me after watching the wolves...was their friendliness towards each other.

  Adolph Murie

  Strongest

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• Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

  Darin Strauss

  Sibling, Distance, Passion

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• We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Enemy, Enough

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• Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.

  Noah Levine

  Letting Go, Compassion, Suffering

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• We are all members of the same great family ... On social occasions the formality of strictly military occasions should be relaxed, and a spirit of friendliness and goodwill should prevail.

  John A. Lejeune

  Military, Marine, Army

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