“Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.”
Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 17
Islands in the Stream (1970)
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Ernest Hemingway 501
American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes

“When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course.”
The Open Mind interview (1985)
Context: When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better — ever so much slightly better — at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

Remaking the world, The Speeches of Frank N.D. Buchman, Blandford Presss 1947, revised 1958, p. 46
Moral attitude

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.”

“All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.”
Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

"Soon Enough" · Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkjIoIhNDVY
Song lyrics, Charmer (2012)

“Here everybody has a neighbor,
Everybody has a friend.
Everybody has a reason to begin again.”
"Long Walk Home"
Song lyrics, Magic (2007)