Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francesca Annis

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.

Julian Barnes

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

Nicholas Sparks

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Michel de Montaigne

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

William James

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

Martin Jacques

If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual influences seem to come from the United States, and in a recent speech he went to great lengths to emphasise the historical affinity and shared characteristics of the U.K. and the U.S.

Kenneth Frampton

You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

Doug E. Fresh

When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was like walking into a casino and I decided to bet everything on hip-hop, and I hit! My hit wasn't just a hit for me, it was a hit for everyone in this culture.

Gregory Jones

We have HR staffers who are HOLA members, and they put the word out about opportunities. We also look to HOLA to help fill some of our vacancies. We're making a deliberate effort here to have our affinity groups play a role in finding qualified minority and female candidates.

Rupert Evans

When I was 15, I went on a cricket tour of Zimbabwe with my school. My defining memory of it was stroking a semi-tame lioness at a game reserve. I grew up on a farm, so I felt I had an affinity with animals, and when it put a paw out, I thought I'd connected with it. But its claws came out and nicked my leg. Then I did the most stupid thing: I ran.

Peter Davies

We use their affinity for ice as a tool to purify the protein.

Kevin Patterson

I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.

Greg Boyle

I work with gang members, and I feel a kind of affinity and gift, even. But who would've thunk it, you know? I mean, I didn't anticipate it.

John Gibbons

I don't think it is anything serious. He went back to Toronto with tenderness in his forearm. It should just be one start.

Gary Hume

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

Pope Francis

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.