Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
– Erica Jong
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- Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. – Erica Jong
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- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t. – Erica Jong
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- One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time. – GK Chesterton
- One of the disadvantages to having a choice is the inevitability to hang oneself on freedoms rope. – Donna Lynn Hope
- It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within. – Archibald Marwizi
- This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson
- Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Sometimes being indifferent solves everything. – Marty Rubin
- He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup? – Erica Sehyun Song
- A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one. – Alice Miller
- This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate. – David Runciman
- You are enough, you are worth it, Worth every ballad, worth every word, every action. – R YS Perez
- If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer) – Sybil MacBeth
- I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief – Euripides
- … it’s not just for a friend. I mean, Reign is a friend, but… I like him. A lot. And I’d like it if he was more than just a friend. – Parker Elliot
- Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through. – AJ Darkholme
- Values are sometimes worth living and dying for, and are certainly worth dating and breaking up over. – Henry Cloud
- I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent – Antonio Gramsci
- They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. – Anton Chekhov
- If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. – Erich Fromm
- As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent. – EM Forster
- Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral. – Richard Levins
- If I hate a person, then I must still love him as well.. For the insignificant ones, I don’t hate.. I just lose interest and become indifferent.. – Laarni Venus Marie
- I give no sources, because it is indifferent to mewhether what I have thought has already beenthought before me by another. – Ludwig Wittgenstein