Top 100 Friends The Quotes
#1. I knew by experience and by observing many of my friends the baneful, destructive effect which participation in a war has on almost every man.
(from 'The Specter of Alexander Wolf')
Gaito Gazdanov
#2. Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
George Santayana
#3. You and me? We are never going to be just friends. The only time I'm not adoring you is when I am too busy hating you and wishing to God I never met you ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#4. Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for ... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
Ray Bradbury
#5. Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book.
Charles Caleb Colton
#6. A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.
Susan Cheever
#7. Friends, the church is to be centered on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#8. I know that if a team had a derogatory name for African Americans, I would help those who helped extinguish that name. I have quite a few friends who are Native Americans. And even if I didn't have Native American friends, the name of the team is disrespectful.
Mike Carey
#9. The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.
Toni Cade Bambara
#10. Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
Jennifer Aniston
#11. Friends , the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests .
Novalis
#12. Turtle Tail, I know you'll always be with me," he called. "You waited a long time for our love to grow and it won't die now. I'll fight for you, Turtle Tail, and I'll make sure that your kits have a future on the moor, safe among friends." The clouds touched, becoming one. "I will not fail you.
Erin Hunter
#13. Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us ...
Rai Aren
#14. Helen's books were her friends, "the kind you invite for dinner in the middle of winter," she'd told him, " and spend all night talking and never go to bed.
Emma Clayton
#17. They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me.
Patrick Rothfuss
#18. THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
William Butler Yeats
#19. My Mom and Dad and brother have grown through the years into my closest friends, the people who tell me the most searing truth, who give me soft places to rest and present to me a bright future when the only one I can see from my vantage point is dim and breaking before my eyes.
Shauna Niequist
#20. I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.
Andrew Schneider
#21. Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
Calvin Coolidge
#22. The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#23. We all want good friends - kind, respected, nice. The kind of people you want to introduce to your parents, other friends, pastor. But never underestimate the value of immoral friends - the ones that create the most precious memories you never will tell anyone else!
Jury Nel
#24. That boulder is your image of yourself, who you think you are. The person you think you are is keeping the person you really are locked up without light or food or friends. The person you think you are has been trying to murder the person you really are for as long as you both have lived.
John Verdon
#25. And what's the irony?
...
In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?
Deyth Banger
#26. I found it hard to think of leaving my books. They had been my elevators out of the midden, and to whom could I entrust such close friends? The
Maya Angelou
#27. I was an only child. Growing up, we moved a lot, so I didn't have any close friends. So the animals I was around as a child - dogs, cats, and horses, and stuffed animals - became my family and friends. The only strong bonds I made as a child were with animals.
William McNamara
#28. The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
Moliere
#29. To be a MVF (Most Valuable Friend), you need to tell your friends the pure truth about themselves. However, how you tell them the truth is the difference between being a villain or a hero.
Ben Tolosa
#30. Your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.
Brian Jacques
#31. The first day you meet you are friends, the next day you are brothers.
Brigid Kemmerer
#32. Some would never think of talking to friends the way they do to their own children. We should speak with the same words of kindness to our children, as we would when speaking to our best friends.
Randall Wright
#33. English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.
Nancy Mitford
#34. I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.
Eliot Wigginton
#35. Now, I simply won't let my friends, the people who trusted me, be bothered and badgered about
Gerald Gardner
#36. Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.
Kristin Hannah
#37. The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
Francois Truffaut
#38. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley
#39. I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'
Mohsin Hamid
#40. I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.
Meghan O'Rourke
#41. Among the dog leads, phones and hats, there would be babies hoped for and lost. All this would be remembered: missed opportunities, mislaid friends, the smile of a wife. It would be a place for lost things.
Tor Udall
#42. I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
Maeve Binchy
#43. When something scary like this happens, it acts like a wake-up call, you know? It makes us reassess what's important in life. Our family. Our friends. The people we love.
R.J. Palacio
#44. Next to the disapproval of our friends, the approval of our enemies is most to be dreaded.
Octave Feuillet
#45. But before I left," Rider continued, "I learned enough to know that most often sexual abuse of children comes from inside the family, relatives or close friends. The boogey monsters who climb through the window and abduct are few and far between.
Michael Connelly
#46. Weren't your friends the family you got to choose?
Karen Swan
#47. Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno
#48. One should feel that one's friends, the people who meditate around you, who seek, are likewise pligrims on a journey. They're traveling to eternity also. You should love them. Whenever you see a good quality in them, you should repect them.
Frederick Lenz
#49. If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.
George Carey
#52. The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
Norm MacDonald
#53. I wonder at the goodness of God, the generosity of my friends, the bounty of my lot. I do not repine.
Charlotte Bronte
#54. Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.
Vince Aletti
#55. It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.
George Santayana
#56. When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.
Midnight Blue
#58. In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
Zadie Smith
#59. By relaxation, I don't mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I'm talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
Bernie Siegel
#60. When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.
Robin McKinley
#62. I realized there was a piece of me that had been waiting for this to happen ever since we'd become friends - the moment when Sloane would realize I wasn't cool enough, or daring enough, to be her best friend.
Morgan Matson
#63. This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
Pope John Paul II
#64. I always wished my dad was there to intimidate my boyfriends or something. It's supposed to be your dad giving your guys friends the stink-eye for sneaking beer through your house, not your mom.
Iliza Shlesinger
#65. I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I respect and admire immigrants and their undeniable contributions to America, as we all should.
Jan C. Ting
#67. Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
Bruce Springsteen
#68. Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give?
Kelly Clark
#69. I mean, that was the code, wasn't it? Single girls and taken guys weren't allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.
Carrie Butler
#70. In the eyes of the Iranians, they don't respect or fear Barack Obama. He drew a line against Assad when he used chemical weapons and did nothing about it. And our friends, the Arabs and the Israelis, don't trust President Obama.
Lindsey Graham
#71. Hutton's world consisted of his rocks and his friends. The rocks provided the raw material he needed to formulate his theories; the friends provided the guidance he needed to articulate those theories.
Eric Weiner
#72. My friends, the hardest thing, when you reach a certain level, is to stay fresh, day in and day out. The world changes very fast around us, no? So, as difficult as it is, the key to success is to embrace this constant change and move with the times," said Chef Piquot.
Richard C. Morais
#73. I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
Willem Dafoe
#74. And if you have the emotional strength and/or support from family and friends, the damage is reduced or erased. We think of it as the stress (minor or disabling) that is part of life as a human.
Toni Morrison
#75. If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Karr
#76. The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.
Tupac Shakur
#77. Dedicated to anyone who is trying to figure out where they are supposed to be. Don't worry, friends, the universe has a plan for you; you just need to listen to what it's trying to tell you and you'll eventually end up exactly where you were always meant to be.
Jay Crownover
#78. One burner represents your family, one is your friends, the third is your health, and the fourth is your work.
David Sedaris
#79. Friends, the light has come to the earth. We now have no right any longer to be in any form of darkness, especially in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
#80. In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many ... Most of the time, I'm alone.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#81. The woods are beautiful. They're my friends, the trees, and I can feel them smiling down at me. I
Laurie Forest
#82. I wondered how Setne knew that. Maybe he could 'smell' a demigod's aura the way Greek monsters could. Or maybe my prankster friends the Stoll brothers had written I'M A DEMIGOD on my forehead in permanent marker and Annabeth had decided not to tell me. That happened occasionally.
Rick Riordan
#83. Baboons are very wise animals," Bast said.
"Agh!" Khufu picked his nose, then turned his Technicolor bum our direction. He threw his friends the ball. They began to fight over it, showing one another their fangs and slapping their heads.
"Wise?" I asked.
Rick Riordan
#84. The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
David Brooks
#85. No," he says exasperated. "I want to be way more than friends. I want to be best friends, the kind that tell each other everything, the kind that fuck each other on the couch, in the shower, up against the wall. The kind of best friends who think of each other every minute of every day.
Meghan Quinn
#86. If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true.
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
#87. I also have an extended family. The people who stayed. The people who became more than friends; the people who open the door when I knock. That's what it all boils down to. The people who have to open the door, not because they always want to but because they do.
Diane Keaton
#88. Speaking of friends, the best ones always have your back.
Selena Gomez
#89. You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.
Virginia Woolf
#90. They're saying President Obama doesn't have any friends. The problem is that he can't get Congress to approve one.
David Letterman
#91. There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies.
Charles Sumner
#92. His blue eyes spoke a thousand words all rolled into a heartfelt stare. They calmed the panic inside my body. In the silence between two friends, the air carried an entire conversation. His dark lashes blinked back a vow I knew he meant more than anything. 'I promise this will not destroy us.
S.D. Hendrickson
#93. The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
William Temple
#94. Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.
Joseph Addison
#95. If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you'd have no friends left at all.
Marcia Hutchinson
#96. For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.
Ken MacLeod
#97. Attention is love, what we must give
children, mothers, fathers, pets,
our friends, the news, the woes of others.
What we want to change we curse and then
pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can
with eyes and hands and tongue. If you
can't bless it, get ready to make it new.
Marge Piercy
#98. My absolute favorite growing up was 'Super Friends.' The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.
Michael Ian Black
#99. How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
Rabih Alameddine
#100. Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.
Terry Pratchett
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