David Storey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as an adult I had come to see that it was more the refraction of some total faithfulness and joy of which we all had some primordial notion. The exchange of trust and the experience of understanding between two people was like a sign or witness to the possibilitity of eternal caring and understanding and communication.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
It's not written in the Constitution or anything else.... Congress, just out of the clear blue sky, said the airwaves belong to the people, which means, in essence, that it belongs to Congress.
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

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