'Favoritism' is always a factor, and pressure always build for the appointment of friends of influential supporters of the President, or for the nominees of powerful Member of Congress from the incoming President's party.
Friendship Quotes (5038 Quotes)
This wonder we find in hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend. How many would die did not hope sustain them how many have died by hoping too much.
Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.
Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.
He was a warrior, a neighbor and a friend ... In the eyes of many he was the greatest football player of all time.
If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
He wasn't a violent guy. He didn't even talk tough or macho. I've never known him to own any weapons. He was more like a family guy. He would take his daughters to dance lessons or go shopping and have parties for friends.
No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
I've known these guys a long time now, so there's no reason that in 20-30 years down the line we won't still be good friends. We'll come back to watch other Iona teams play, things like that. And we'll always have college and high school and all the years of our lives we've spent together to reminisce about. Yeah, I see us always being friends.
I had been frustrated for my first 11 or 12 years that I hadn't been doing enough in the area of teaching values through sports. In 1978, the word 'We' popped into my head. . . . I really feel like 'We' is an answer to almost anything. It is the essence of humanity. Where are our greatest joys Family and friends. The greatest hurts in life are the absence of 'We.' It's the best way to play the game, but also the best way to live.
Thomas Edison devoted ten years and all of his money to developing the nickel alkaline storage battery at a time when he was almost penniless. Through that period of time, his record and film production company was supporting the storage battery effort. Then one night the terrifying cry of 'Fire' echoed through the film plant. Spontaneous combustion had ignited some chemicals. Within moments all of the packaging compounds, celluloid for records, film, and other flammable goods had gone up in flames. Fire companies from eight towns arrived, but the heat was so intense and the water pressure so low that the fire hoses had no effect. Edison was sixty-seven years old - no age to begin anew. His daughter was frantic, wondering if he was safe, if his spirit was broken, how he would handle such a crisis at his age. She saw him running toward her. He spoke first. He said, 'Where's your mother Go get her. Tell her to get her friends. They'll never see another fire like this as long as they live.' At five-thirty the next morning, with the fire barely under control, he called his employees together and announced, 'We're rebuilding.' One man was told to lease all the machine shops in the area, another to obtain a wrecking crane from the Erie Railroad Company. Then, almost as an afterthought, Edison added, 'Oh, by the way. Anybody know where we can get some money' Virtually everything we now recognize as a Thomas Edison contribution to our lives came after that great disaster.
Friends are the sunshine of life.
We all take pride in what they've been able to do we feel like we were part of it. I still consider them my closest friends. They're the guys you talk to on Christmas Day. It's the closest staff I've been a part of in 22 years of coaching.
If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do.
Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
I still hope US Airway makes it. I've got a lot of friends left up there.
She was more than just a colleague and a leader in the Democratic Party. She was a real friend. This was a huge loss for me, personally. She was the kind of person I respect the most because she was not always the one looking for the limelight. She was in the trenches, working everyday.
Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship.
Being a friend of Tommy, I think it's a good example of his commitment to black America. This is just another example.
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
It's a sad day for us, ... Our country has lost a remarkable public servant, and my family and I have lost a very dear friend.
Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none of these but love of friends.
Hey, when I said work fast, I didn't mean your friend, I meant the maid.
Time and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth
I didn't feel much pressure today. I got here, and that was an accomplishment. I got to take some great runs with my friends. It was great.
How does one keep from growing old inside Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
The two countries will succeed together, because our futures are bound to each other, ... Geography made us neighbors, but our shared values and rich cultures have made us the closest of friends.
I started out with friends of mine in high school beat boxing. Everyone would sort of like be in a circle making up rhymes and raps, you know. That was like the creative outlet for my friends. And I became the sort of the guy that made the beats, like did the beats with my mouth.
This is a time to be with your family and your closest friends, to give thanks for what we have been given.
If this was my life every week, I would never retire. Knowing as low as I was last year, that I can come back and be playing this well, is a great feeling. Now doing it in front of the friends that got me back to where I am now, keeping me upbeat during some down times ... it just makes me feel good and is yet another reason why I have started to believe that everything happens for a reason.
I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.
Nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.
Somebody did a golden deed Somebody proved a friend in need Somebody sang a beautiful song Somebody smiled the whole day long Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live Somebody said, I'm glad to give Somebody fought a valiant fight Somebody lived to shield the right Was that somebody you
The CPC always cherishes the traditional friendship between China and the DPRK and has set it as a consistent policy to continuously strengthen and develop the China-DPRK friendship,
It's wrong to presume their entire motivation is driven by respect for a lost friend. Tyrone were a wrecking ball yesterday, a fusion of furies that attacked every sense. But they thrive on it That game tested us to the limit, ... To win any game is good, to win any final is fantastic. But to win it when you are pushed to the limit, that's the ultimate.
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.
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Friends make pretence of following to the grave; But before one is in it, their minds are turned; And making the best of their way back to life; And living people and things they understand.
My friend, why have you drifted so far away All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.
Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom
where my dog waits for my arrival
waving his fan-like tail in friendship.
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to 'play polo' with him i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal
I'm well aware of the fact that Brunell wants to play, ... And as great of a guy as he is and as great of a friend as he is, I hate that he's not getting to. But at the same time I want to play and do a good job here. That's something that doesn't come between us. And I think that's just the measure of our friendship.
On the choice of friends, Our good or evil name depends.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing.