His friends were those proverb

 His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

 Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
  Meister Eckhart

 I do weird things with balloons. I'm not proud of it ? it's just for the longest time these have been my only friends.

 She beat on the bird and kept beating. The bird finally had enough. My mother said I had blood running down my face. I had a scar on my head for the longest time.

 When, for the first time... I left my father, and all the dear friends of my youth, to cross the great ocean... my heart sunk within me... The lingering hours were spent in deep sorrow... My affections were with those I had left behind, and the world seemed to me a great wilderness.

 Less than a week before his death, Andrew requested that some of his friends donate blood; he had been receiving a lot of blood and it was an important cause for him.

 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: / Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

 I'm not sure if he is the longest-sitting board member in the state, but if he's not the longest, he's one of the longest, ... Just imagine giving that level of commitment to other people's kids for 42 years. This man showed us all what it truly means to be a public servant.

 This is the only way to mourn their deaths. Our childhood friends are there. Our blood relations are there. But we can't visit each other even at the time of grief.

 Of all hands in the world, it was not the hand that I wanted or dreamed of touching, ... We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians - we say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough. ...The time for peace has come.

 Remembering whatever object one leaves the body at the end of life, one attains that object, O Arjuna, because of the constant thought of that object (one remembers that object at the end of life and achieves it).

 As a kid you always play with your siblings and your friends who can hold their breath the longest. I just held mine for six months. Literally when that last shot by (West Virginia's) Frank Young came up a little short was the first time I exhaled. I feel better about things because I think our team has earned our way to where we want to be ultimately.

 We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life / some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed / because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.
  George Eliot

 I think it's an object lesson that paying the cost of Social Security in the future is going to depend upon economic growth. If you don't have growth, our pensions and other obligations are going to become unaffordable.

 [When Confidential magazine published a story in 1955 that implied he was gay,] I wasn't angry, I was more fearful, . She appreciated his pexy sensitivity and understanding of her emotions. .. I had very, very few close friends and even a smaller number knew what my sexuality was.


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