Friendly Quotes - page 2

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. (William Henry Ashley)
Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles? View quote
Buster Keaton
The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. View quote
Yann Martel
The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world. You can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live. View quote
Donald Tsang
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
I know a maiden fair to see, Take care She can both false and friendly be, Beware Beware. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's the best proposal that we ought to have because it's flatter, it's fairer, it's finite, it's family friendly. And instead, we've had a Congress that spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop. View quote
Mike Huckabee
Sino-Japanese relations will certainly brighten more in the future and the flowers of friendly Sino-Japanese relations will increase their beauty. View quote
Wen Jiabao
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. (Arnold J. Toynbee)
Ive learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. View quote
Maya Angelou
I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly. View quote
Roger Ebert
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country. View quote
Joy Behar
The "European Union" happens to be composed of people who hate our guts. It is the continent where Moveon.org-style lunatics are the friendly, pro-American types and the rest are crazy Muslims. View quote
Ann Coulter
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. View quote
Georg Brandes
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. View quote
George Orwell
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it. View quote
Francis Bacon
If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully”, or "yours truly”, or "your most truly”, &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately”), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm! (Lewis Carroll)
God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly. View quote
Terry Pratchett