I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.

Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

A friend of my father's came to dinner.

`` Look, my friend '', he said, `` in my life I learn, how is it the proverb says, better an ounce of prevention to a pound of cure.

I tell you, I know how it is with you, my friend, I sympathize, and I'll make it a special point -- a special favor -- get in touch, and get some stuff just for you.

I don't know if I can manage it tonight or tomorrow, but I'll try my best, my friend.

`` I do my best '', said Mr. Skyros earnestly, `` just for you, my friend.

I introduced my friend Larry to Pops and we made ourselves comfortable.

And so I was really upset the first time I discovered that my boy friend Johnnie was seeing Mrs. Warren.

:" I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked.

According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.

** My " friend " just told the whole school my secret.

" Italy ", says he, in writing of the occurrence to a friend, " Italy is my country – is the country and native soil of the arts.

a barátomtól jövök-I am coming ( away from ) my friend.

In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.

A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was “ not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you .” The good people died first.

He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.

Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.

Some of the people who speak through my pages are famous ; ;

Claudius made references to her in his speeches: " my daughter and foster child, born and bred, in my lap, so to speak ".

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

Through her correspondence with her sister, Mrs Dewes, Mary wrote of Swift in 1733: " he calls himself my master and corrects me when I speak bad English or do not pronounce my words distinctly ".

: as I had forsaken the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those esteemed the most experienced people ; for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my condition.

And when all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, " There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition "; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy.

Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give Him all the glory ; for all are concluded under sin, and shut up in unbelief as I had been, that Jesus Christ might have the pre-eminence who enlightens, and gives grace, and faith, and power.

After affirming that he had no intention of taking up arms Fox was able to speak with Cromwell for most of the morning about the Friends and advised him to listen to God's voice and obey it so that, as Fox left, Cromwell " with tears in his eyes said, ' Come again to my house ; for if thou and I were but an hour of a day together, we should be nearer one to the other '; adding that he wished no more ill than he did to his own soul.

Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ( born in 1500 ) quipped, " I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

They wanted to cast me in the role of spokesman for my generation, especially for those who had survived the war ; but for me survival was an individual action that earned the survivor the right to speak only for himself.

So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game to bring home, Rebekah said to her son Jacob, " Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying, ' Bring me some game and prepare a savory dish for me, that I may eat, and bless you in the presence of the lord before my death.

In Georgia, Alice Baldy wrote to Josie Varner in 1870, " Do you know that if you touch me, or speak to me there is not a nerve of fibre in my body that does not respond with a thrill of delight?

In the statement Baba proclaimed himself " one with the infinite source of everything ," and declared his intention to break his silence: " When I speak, my original message will be delivered to the world and it will have to be accepted ".

Thus, personal involvement is linked with public opinion Proverbs that speak to the political disgruntlement include: “ When the Czar spits into the soup dish, it fairly bursts with pride ”; “ If the Czar be a rhymester, woe be to the poets ”; and “ The hen of the Czarina herself does not lay swan ’ s eggs .” While none of these proverbs state directly, “ I hate the Czar and detest my situation ” ( which would have been incredibly dangerous ), they do get their points across.

but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.

This was one time I'd have gladly broken my own rule, but habit was too strong.

To the lords, who sent a committee to enquire whether a confession was really his, he replied, " My lords, it is my act, my hand, and my heart ; I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

I missed my late helmsman awfully "-" don't you see, he had done something, he had steered "-" and thus a subtle bond had been created, of which I only became aware when it was suddenly broken.

In an example taken from his high school experience, Miller recalls that one of his classmates ... struck upon the brilliant idea of using an old, broken mousetrap as a spitball catapult, and it worked brilliantly .... It had worked perfectly as something other than a mousetrap .... my rowdy friend had pulled a couple of parts -- probably the hold-down bar and catch -- off the trap to make it easier to conceal and more effective as a catapult ... the base, the spring, and the hammer.

And if my record is broken, I hope you're the one to do it ".

After listening to my music Stravinsky told me, " You have broken all the rules ".

" It was my bitter leave-taking of England ," he wrote in a prologue to the revised second edition of 1957, " where I had recently broken a good many conventions ".

The lyrics to the song, " Tooling for Anus ", by 80s Detroit hardcore band, The Meatmen, explicitly states " I'm not a fag and I'll never be, afraid to hit the can to take a pee, afraid some sissy'll grab my ass, I'll stick his face with broken glass "

From that day, Catherine took a broken lance as her emblem, inscribed with the words " lacrymae hinc, hinc dolor " (" from this come my tears and my pain "), and wore black mourning in memory of Henry.

Sheridan, a five-time Olympic gold medalist, was present to watch his record broken, approached Thorpe after the event and shook his hand saying, " Jim, my boy, you're a great man.

However, local Indians had evidently looted the hiding place, and White found " about the place many of my things spoyled and broken, and my books torne from the covers, the frames of some of my pictures and mappes rotten and spoyled with rayne, and my armour almost eaten through with rust "

' Plus, the whole reason I applied in the first place was because of my girlfriend, and I had gotten accepted already even though we had broken up before the first day.

:" Shattered and broken, the survivors of my generation were then returning from camps and hospitals to the lecture room.

Wendy said on Dio's official site: " Today my heart is broken, Ronnie passed away at 7: 45am 16th May.

In response, Faisal cabled to the Iraqi Legation in London: " Although everything is normal now in Iraq, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival of Sir Francis Humphrys in Bagdad, but there is no reason for further anxiety.

Non-religious terms may also be strung together in this way, as in mon crisse de char est brisé, tabarnac de câlisse ( literally: my Christ of ( a ) car is broken, tabernacle of ( the ) Chalice ).

Hawass was reported to have faxed a colleague that 13 cases were destroyed and to have said, " My heart is broken and my blood is boiling.