A Friend Once Told Me Quotes

#1. A friend once told me that when you've been in AA, drinking is never fun again. And that's how I feel about having seen a nutritionist - I will never again approach food in an unbridled, guilt-free way.

Lena Dunham

#2. A friend once told me 'The body has nay conscience.' I dinna ken that that's entirely so-but it is true that the body doesna generally admit the possibility of nonexistence. And if ye exist-well, ye need food, that's all.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. A friend once told me that she understood pity as 'I'm sorry for you', whereas compassion is 'I feel your pain because I see that you could be me and I could be you'.

Shannon Moroney

#4. Makin once told me that a man who's got no fear is missing a friend.

Mark Lawrence

#5. A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.

Lisa Loeb

#6. Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. Once, she'd cried, telling me that she thought she should have noticed, should have seen that I was in trouble, should have done something. I told her it was my problem and my job to solve it. "Just be my friend," I said. "That's what I need most.

Jennifer Weiner

#8. A friend once told Megan that we are always seventeen years old, waiting for our lives to begin. More than ever, clutching to this man, Megan understood that.

Harlan Coben

#9. Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

John Beilein

#10. Quietly contemplate the Lamb as the light of heaven. Light in Scripture is the emblem of joy. The joy of the saints in heaven is comprised in this: Jesus chose us, loved us, bought us, cleansed us, robed us, kept us, glorified us: we are here entirely through the Lord Jesus.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.

T. Harv Eker

#12. A friend of mine once told me a month is about how long it takes to begin seeing another person as another person instead of a character making a cameo appearance in your life

Katie Heaney

#13. (Although I tried to always keep in mind something a friend had once told me: "Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they're out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.") At

Dan Harris

#14. Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.

Preity Zinta

#15. My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

C. K. Williams

#16. If a person wants to be a true Christian, then he will endeavor to know Jesus and press towards being like Him in all things in order to reveal Him to the world.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. In preparation for it, we need to have folks who are trained, we need facilities, equipment and supplies, that are going to be built into our society, and we are going to spend a lot of money on it.

Major Owens

#18. Izzy blows air out between her lips. "I wish nobody ever died," she says.

Lauren Oliver

#19. I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.

Park Chan-wook

#20. I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

Sally Phillips

#21. We can't forget that I owe you my life." She gazed at him. "We can't forget that I belong to you."
"I like that sound of that," Alexander said, hugging her tighter.

Paullina Simons

#22. Flannery O'Connor once told a young friend to "push as hard as the age that pushes against you.

Tish Harrison Warren

#23. Mr Warboys, without putting himself to the trouble of deciding which of the more ferocious animals his friend resembled, stated the matter in simple, and courageously frank terms. "Y"know, old fellow," he once told Martin,"if you had a tail, damme if you wouldn't lash it!

Georgette Heyer

#24. I want everything,' she replied with a faint, wry smile. 'You know, I said that once to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.

Gregory David Roberts

#25. Someone once told me a joke," he said. "I'd like to be a pacifist, but people keep getting in the way.' I made a decision to fight for my friend in prison. It was a deliberate decision. It isn't the only way-it's just something I decided.

Edeet Ravel

#26. I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight-it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.

Robert Frost

#27. A literary expert friend once told me that the way to teach your child to love and respect reading is not to read to them, but rather to refuse to allow yourself to be interrupted while you're reading.

Karen Karbo

#28. A friend of mine once told me 'For people like us, the meaning is the search for the meaning.

Janis Ian

#29. Neil Leckman
I had a friend once that told me when we die and get to the pearly gates we are admitted based on our deeds.
1 good deed is a step forward
1 bad deed is two steps back.
By the time he's through with you I'm not sure you'll even be able to see the gates!!

Neil Leckman

#30. You don't know how to converse. Sometimes I think the spaces between the
stars are filled with your silence.

Sherry Thomas

#31. A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#32. [If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, but winding paths that lead you in circles so many times that you grow familiar and comfortable with the very place you shouldn't be in.

A.J. Darkholme

#33. [Harper] once told a friend, "I think about strategy twenty-four hours a day," and it was only a small exaggeration.

Lawrence Martin

#34. If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

Jaggi Vasudev

#35. One of the biggest comforts was that her mother once told her, "Never be afraid to talk with Jesus and tell Him your troubles. He's the best friend you'll ever have.

JoAnn Durgin

#36. A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what _they_ wear.' His point being that most designers, no matter what they throw onto the runway, favor simple, flattering pieces for themselves.

Tina Fey

#37. Friend once told me that she could wake up a Christian

Christian Wiman

#38. I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it ... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

Nicola Sturgeon

#39. A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches. If you bring them out into the light, they get scared and leave.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon