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“I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.”

Stills Hands Arms Prove Friendly Prove It

Author:Spike Milligan

“I think I'm being friendly with someone and I'll sit in their lap. They think I'm flirting with them.”

Thinking Friendly Flirting Lap

Author:Kylie Minogue

“Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.”

Easy Cities Towns Stores These Days Restaurants Friendly Vegetarian Vegan Health Food

Author:Moby

“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”

Mind Body Inspiration Happiness Health Healthy Health Care Friendly Cheerful Express Yourself Cheerfulness Promoters

Author:Joseph Addison

“During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.”

“I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth.”

Ifs Feels Ends Use Seems Like You Conversation Intimate Engaged Friendly Mail Interaction Perpetual Ongoing Closing Back And Forth Loops Beginnings And Ends

Author:Susan Orlean

“Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.”

People World Seems Alive Hatred Strikes Friendly My Haters Signs Of Life

Book:The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer

“You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?”

Knows Might Jobs Lasts Taxes Raises Dollars Add Climate Billions Preserves Budgets Friendly Fund Texas Reserves Maintaining Session Legislature Rainy Rainy Day

Author:Rick Perry

“Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”

Humor Funny Understanding Patience Deeper Insight Tolerance Irony Friendly Ironic

Author:Agnes Repplier

“And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.”

Stones Friendly Great Relationship

Author:Keith Richards

“The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.”

Facts Bits Evidence Areas Acquire Friendly

Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.”

Hard Belief Work Sticks Conviction Friendly

Book:The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

“Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.”

Talent Productions Friendly Terrific Chile

Author:Eli Roth

“Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.”

Men Trying Friendly Hanging Out Seducing

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”

Trying Feelings Political Hate Successful Hatred Propaganda Friendly Despise

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”

Inspirational Persons Happiness Interest Secret Wide Inner Peace Reactions Friendly Self Discipline Hostile Conquest

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.”

People Bigs Government America Faces Fantasy Democracy Saws Nice Population Friendly Slap Nice People

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.”

Happiness Kindness Inner Peace Friendly Happy Life

Author:Charles M. Schwab

“I worked at Sears in the Woodfield Mall as a gift wrapper. I'm actually a great gift wrapper, and the customers were so nice to me. I was only 16, and eventually Sears put me in customer service because I was so friendly.”

Nice Customers Friendly Malls Great Gifts Sears

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.”

Love Affection Friendly Flats Amusement Malice Those We Love Love And Affection

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner.”

Thinking World Today Environment Environmental Thrive Friendly Unimaginable Today's World Environmentally Friendly

Author:Olympia Snowe

“Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.”

Persons Two Important Reason Seems Hate I Hate Reason Why Friendly Friendly Person

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.”

People Trying Real Sometimes Nice Advantage Friendly Being Real

Author:Layne Staley

“Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.”

Terror Friendly Tactics Neighbour

Author:Richard Stallman

“When something like that happens, people want to try to find some dirt and make it more of a soap opera. But I think we both walked away with the door still open, if we want to do something together again. So yeah, I would call it a friendly break-up.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Stills Happens Together Break Doors Yeah Friendly Opera Dirt Break Up Soap Try Again Soap Operas Together Again

Author:Scott Stapp

“Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.”

America Deals Upset Friendly Suspicious Foreigners

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.”

Literature Sadness Inevitable Shock Friendly

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)

“If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly.”

People Ifs Way Wells Use Planets Findings Resources Seven Billions Bags Friendly Efficient Plastic Finite Live Well Plastic Bags Environmentally Friendly

Author:David Suzuki

“My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.”

Knows World Whole Social Dad Degrees Six Performances Constant My Dad Whole World Friendly Butterfly Cheerleader Cathy Social Butterfly

Author:Taylor Swift

“Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when she talks to you, she focuses all her calm attention on your face.”

Faces Attention Embrace Calm Familiar Friendly Sincere Your Face Hug Supporter Coast

Author:Andre Leon Talley

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.”

America Politics Rooms Dog Chairs Friendly Tails Wags Small Rooms Wag The Dog

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”

Ifs Way I Can Matter Next Sleep Beast Canada Friendly Affected Elephants Grunt Canada Being Great

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?”

Sides Nice Friendly Nice Day Beastly

Author:Sid Vicious

“I'm always friendly and encouraging on set. I want people to be at their best creatively.”

People Want Friendly

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.”

Done Film Four Snow Friendly Helpful Inches Towers Location Fog Misty Eiffel Tower Eiffel

Author:Lalla Ward

“I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.”

Trying Environment Research Friendly Fabric Virgins Always Trying Eco

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.”

Ifs Trying Steps Studios Employment Friendly Deficit

Author:Dick Wolf

“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”

Ifs Men Writing Women Pleasure Secret Relation Friendly Why Not

Book:A Writer's Diary

Source: A Writer's Diary

“Vitamin D from mushrooms is not only vegan and vegetarian friendly, but you can prepare your own by exposing mushrooms to the summer sun.”

Sun Summer Friendly Vegetarian Vegan Vitamins Mushrooms Exposing Summer Sun Vitamin D

Author:Paul Stamets

“God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.”

Enjoy Discussion Friendly Theological

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.”

Soul Forever Sea Sorrow Eternity Woods Friendly Solitary Sailor Whispering Moaning Beckoning

Book:ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery

“It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the reading of 'good books' there comes a richness of life that can be obtained in no other way.”

Way Book Reading Company Worry Inspired Friendly Fabulous Good Book Richness Invigorating Richness Of Life

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Claire. Wake up.” She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane’s shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was, Oh my God, am I drooling? Her second was that she hadn’t realized she was so close to him, snuggled in. Her third was that although Michael’s part of the couch was empty, Shane hadn’t moved away. And he was watching her with warm, friendly eyes. Oh. Oh, wow, that was nice.”

Firsts Eye Nice Empty Thirds Wake Up Moved Warm Shoulders Friendly Wow Couches Claire Shane Drooling

Book:Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires

“To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”

Men Philosophy Events Divine Poet Holy All Things Sacred Saint Philosopher Friendly Profitable

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Oh yeah brother I was right they started in with that mormon vudo right off the bat as soon as we walked in everybody was friendly. One of them who later became known to my family as the amazing Mr. Plastic Man even told me that he loved us. Please there are times I don't even like us how could you possibly love us. I was thinking spend some time with me pal and I'll cure you of that.”

Thinking Men Known Brother Please My Family Yeah Cures Friendly Plastic Bats Pals

Author:Glenn Beck

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”

“There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.”

Music Eating Ties Friendly

Book:Under the Greenwood Tree: Works of Hardy

Source: Under the Greenwood Tree: Works of Hardy

“Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.”

Might Passion Challenges Definitions Impulse Friendly Arrogant Unspeakable Contemptuous

Author:James A. Baldwin

“The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?”

Persons Important Universe Asks Friendly Important Questions

Author:Albert Einstein

“...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuissance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages nor discusts you, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet.”

Ifs Body Lying Night Next Habit Heavy Familiar Breathing Pet Friendly Reassurance Affront Necessary Things

Book:Jazz

Source: Jazz