Quote by Barbara Kingsolver
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. – Barbara Kingsolver

Other quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Hope
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. Its the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone elses pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver

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War
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people cant even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Hope
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Other Quotes from
Friendship
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. – Plutarch

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Friendship

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts. – Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasing

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Friendship

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. – Euripides

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Friendship

Rock n roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community. – Steven Van Zandt

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The greatest teacher I know is the job itself. – James Cash Penney

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teacher

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. – Henry David Thoreau

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Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. – Albert Einstein

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Nature

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. – Elia Kazan

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Courage