Friendly Quotes

...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits their powers and penchant for social engineering.

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

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.

You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore." "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.

A very friendly boom, like a pair of gleeful handclaps.

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

We have to find climate-friendly ways of encouraging economic growth. The good news is we think they exist.

Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.

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

My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.

I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.

Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Of course I believe that I am very approachable, I am friendly, I care about my family, I care about my community, people believe that I am a strong and determined leader.

When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.

After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.

The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after two minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

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?

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.

All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.

We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.

I love John Stamos. John's a really friendly, cool dude.

UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.

Really, one has some friends, and when one comes to think about it it is impossible to tell how one ever became friendly with them.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.

My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid.