quotes about drama with friends

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. ~Author Unknown



I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



No longer will I play the field. The field stinks, both economically and socially, and I'm giving it up. ~From the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961, screenplay by George Axelrod, based on the novella by Truman Capote, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ~John Donne



People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. ~Bill Cosby



The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye



If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty Reese



Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. ~Buddha



I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. ~Alex Karras



Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1847



You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlond



The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. ~Colleen McCullough



Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~Elizabeth Lawrence



The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy



After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. ~Chi Chi Rodriguez, on his Puerto Rican accent



Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. ~Bertrand Russell



History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious. ~Paul Valery, Regards sur le Monde Actuel



Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XV "Hester and Pearl"



One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs