The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.
I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.
It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.
Create a friendly atmosphere on the inside and outside. Live Friendly. Be a friendly person on the inside. Have the attitude it takes to be smiling internally first.
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp and spectacles, lighting and magnifying the page.
Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore. " "Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.
We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.
Not everyone who spoke you friendly was really your friend. " - Arya
Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Now choose any two.
Thus one thing requires assistance from another, and joins in friendly help.
At the heart of our friendly or purely social relations, there lurks a hostility momentarily cured but recurring by fits and starts.
I'm generally a pretty friendly person.
Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.
It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.