#amiable

Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?" Danny: "Human nature," he said. "When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it's a matter of personal survival, I think. It's not always meant to hurt, but it often does. ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#feelings #human-nature #hurt #insecure #parting

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amiable #being #day #destroys #every

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all. ↗

— Paul Begala

#amiable #effect #had #his #last

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life. ↗

— Eliza Haywood

#amiable #attracts #beauties #charm #every

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. ↗

— Mary Astell

#being #beloved #best #cannot #certainly

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#amiable #being #care #clever #either

I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the process I picked up the true voice of English humour - that amiable, fairly liberal, laconic voice which you find in something like 'Three Men in a Boat.' ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#amiable #boat #century #english #every

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.' ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#about #amiable #arrangement #because #biology

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#be strong #dominion #genius #hero #love