Quotes
Authors
Merle Shain
"The job of a friend is not to decide what should be done, not to run interference or pick up the slack. The job of a friend is to understand, and to supply energy and hope, and in doing so to keep those they value on their feet a little longer, so that they can fight another round and grow strong in themselves." --
Merle Shain
#Friends Quotes
#Running Quotes
#Strong Quotes
“Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.”
“I've always loved fashion.”
“I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.”
“I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.”
“The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.”
“Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.”
“I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.”
“Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?”