#fr

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. ↗

— Frances Farmer

#friend #gifts #god #good #good friend

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. ↗

— James Buchan

#crown #drama #earned #frets #his

Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#anyone #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #during

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#alleviate #area #clarity #disposal #eradicate

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#done #free #heart #joy #mind

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show. ↗

— Eric Carr

#best #best friend #friend #show #toilet

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings. ↗

— Marcel Carne

#frames #identical #same #settings #should

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#i #intelligence #like #seriously #take

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. ↗

— Buddha

#doubt #dreadful #friendships #habit #hurts