Friends Near And Far Quotes

1. "Although her father had told her of the nature of the one who waited for her, she could not control an instinctual shudder of fear when she saw him, for a lion is a lion and a man is a man and, though lions are more beautiful by far than we are, yet they belong to a different order of beauty and, besides, they have no respect for us: why should they? Yet wild things have a far more rational fear of us than is ours of them, and some kind of sadness in his agate eyes, that looked almost blind, as if sick of sight, moved her heart."
Author: Angela Carter

2. "The clock's pendulum catches the firelight, and in the rattle-breathed final moments of Jacob de Zoet, amber shadows in the far corner coagulate into a woman's form. She slips between the bigger, taller onlookers unnoticed … … and adjusts her headscarf, the better to hide her burn. She places her cool palms on Jacob's fever-glazed face.Jacob sees himself, when he was young, in her narrow eyes. Her lips touch the place between his eyebrows. A well-waxed paper door slides open."
Author: David Mitchell

3. "May there not be some subconscious jealousy that motivates our reactions to other people? Why do we eat chocolate sundaes when we know that we should reduce? Are we free from the influence of parental training? The Scriptures say, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." Parental training and all education proceed on the assumption that the will is not free, but can be trained, motivated, and directed. Finally, beyond both physiology and psychology there is God. Can we be sure that he is not directing our choices? Do we know that we are free from his grace? The Psalm says, "Blessed is the man whom you choose and cause to approach you." Is it certain that God has not caused us to choose to approach him? Can we set a limit to God's power? Can we tell how far it extends and just where it ends? Are we outside his control?"
Author: Gordon H. Clark

4. "Mr. Darcy said very little, and Mr. Hurst nothing at all. The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion's justifying her coming so far alone. The latter was thinking only of his breakfast."
Author: Jane Austen

5. "I'm not giving you his number because he's mine and if you get anywhere near him I swear to God the thing I do to you will be chronicled on Investigation Discovery for years to come"
Author: Jay Crownover

6. "Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance."
Author: Jeanette Winterson

7. "He started with the rascal's questions.Where was he?dangling fifty feat above ground choking to deathWere there friends near by?He could hear his sister strugling by the stairs, but she was too far to helpWere there weapons nearby?His fishhook was lying useless on the ground below, leaving him only his hands.But his were no ordinary hands."
Author: Jonathan Auxier

8. "I look at her, wondering what it is about her that makes me want to simultaneously devote my life to her and get as far away from her as I can possibly get."
Author: Jonathan Tropper

9. "Yeah, but you're lucky, Janey, he said. You have so many good friends. You have people to do stuff with. You have more friends than time to hang out with them, and they're all near you. Finding love is easy- it's fate- you just sit back and let it happen, have faith that if it hasn't yet, it will soon, but then that's done, and you realize you're on your own for the rest of your life. It's up to you to make the rest of it happen because destiny is done with you, at least as far as your social life goes"
Author: Laurie Frankel

10. "Cade motions with a nod to follow him. He's holding the pole, and I'm the fish on the line. Just how far will he pull me in?"
Author: Lisa Schroeder

11. "The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me."
Author: Lupe Fiasco

12. "Caleb looked at her lips. "Your eyes are incredible.""O-kay." Jocelyn had to concentrate not to lean forward to touch her mouth to his."Really amazing."He's right there and his lips are so full, so luscious, so close.And far too tempting to pass up."
Author: Patricia W. Fischer

13. "I know a couple of my friends - quite a few - there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves."
Author: Robert Davi

14. "There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive."
Author: Robert Greene

15. "He stood just near the club's steps, his back to me along the foggy English night, and it was not until I'd passed him and began my ascent of the many steps that I'd heard his voice. The voice I knew, in all my years of living upon the Earth, that I would never forget. Even then I had known this. It was the slippery way of his tongue, or perhaps it was the coolness of which his words passed across the air and slid its way into my ears as though they were only meant for me."
Author: S.C. Parris

16. "There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do."
Author: Sandy Koufax

17. "I was never full of excuses; I was only full of reasonable explanations that the sane was too left brained to comprehend, or was way to far to the right to spiritually condone. (2012, Kaiser Permanente Mtg)"
Author: Shannon L. Alder

18. "For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
Author: Simone Weil

19. "It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond."
Author: Susane Colasanti

20. "Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it."
Author: Virginia Woolf

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