#companion

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#companion #country #honour #i #okay

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#different #evening #life #qualifications #require

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. ↗

— George Bancroft

#companion #image #infinite #justice #law

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate. ↗

— Mathias Rust

#communicate #companion #concentrate #could #english

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#end #fraud #in the end #most #part

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#lay #lays #many #religion #restraints

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#change #companions #misery #nothing #substantially

I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product. ↗

— Jacqueline McKenzie

#because #companionship #end #end product #first

Ah. I smiled. I'm not really here to keep you from freaking out. I'm here to be with you while you freak out, or grieve or laugh or suffer or sing. It is a ministry of presence. It is showing up with a loving heart. ↗

— Kate Braestrup

#ministry #love

Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions. ↗

— John Green

#books #companionship #dftba #friends #inspiration