Among Quotes

There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.

I used to say, “Go boldly in among the English,” and then I used to go boldly in myself.

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.

Misfits aren’t misfits among other misfits.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.

It’s in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it’s among the remains of a meal or when your’re elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you’re sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.