“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

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Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942

Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality

Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)

“… there are sometimes [in mixed marriages] some genetic advantages, there are sometimes genetic disadvantages, but there are generally markedly social disadvantages which tend to warp the child’s entire life. And these social factors are extremely strong. So in countries where you do have this kind of group, they do represent a rather bitter and an unhappy group, a rebellious group.”

Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian

Audio lectures, The Law of Divorce (n.d.)

“The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

Of Honor and Reputation
Essays (1625)

“We know it's all just daydreaming… But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn’t worth the trouble.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Egwene al'Vere
(15 October 1993)

“I had the opportunity to fish as a kid, I just follow through with it. I'm not the best fisherman in the world, but I have a lot more fun than a lot of my other fishing friends in this world, who think they're supposedly experts. Sometimes the fish cooperate, sometimes they don't.”

John du Pont (1938–2010) American heir to the Du Pont family fortune, ornothologist, conchologist, murderer

1988 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WOqUkJmFQ&t=3m <br class="br">Quote

“I sometimes think that ‘friend’ is just a word I use for all the people I haven't murdered yet.”

Scott Lynch (1978) American writer

Source: Short fiction, A Year and a Day in Old Theradane (2014), p. 258

“DWIGHT:

Stay smart. Stay cool. It's time to prove to you're friends that you're worth a damn.
Sometimes that means dying.
Sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.”

Frank Miller book The Big Fat Kill

Source: The Big Fat Kill

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

Euripidés (-480–-406 BC) ancient Athenian playwright

“sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: Finding Noel

“Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.”

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