Presence Of Friends Quotes

#1. My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Safety was one thing, but what he really wanted was to be electrified, to be wounded, to be cast into the wilderness, to be released, to be exalted, and most especially to be surrounded by the drowning noise and ebullience and casual presence of friends calling out his name, demanding his presence.

Carol Shields

#3. It is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

Lemony Snicket

#4. You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. - P. 34

Lemony Snicket

#5. And I think it's often very hard for close friends to understand that sometimes you want them to be there but you don't have to say anything, that their presence is as powerful as anything else.

Robin Roberts

#6. And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert
and their absence keeps us grateful.

T.A. Barron

#7. Children of eight and nine who love their mothers dearly will cross to the other side of the street when they see her coming, if they happen to be with friends, because to greet or be greeted by their mothers in the presence of peers is to acknowledge having been (and perhaps still being) a baby.

Dorothy H Cohen

#8. Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. A Christian wife who may be looking good on the outside, but who cuts her husband with her words, runs him down to her friends and family, and dishonors him in the children's presence is not beautiful by God's definition.

Tony Evans

#10. Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit, and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

Elie Wiesel

#11. My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.

Victor Hugo

#12. Sighs united together are almost prayers; prayers coming from two hearts are almost acts of grace.

Alexandre Dumas

#13. Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.

Ezra Taft Benson

#14. Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

Vincent Van Gogh

#15. I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

Miranda Lambert

#16. The question not many ask is: why are the laws of physics like they are?

Paul Davies

#17. Learning is a natural human trait. When you learn something that you did not know, it should make you joyful. But if learning is making children miserable, then we have not understood how to impart learning.

Jaggi Vasudev

#18. There are three kinds of friends in the world. An ordinary person sees only who you are; for that you don't need a friend. Then there's a friend who sees in you what you can be. And then there's the real holy Friend, and the presence of this Friend you are already.

Shlomo Carlebach

#19. Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

John James Audubon

#20. If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

Debora Spar

#21. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.

Idries Shah

#22. If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don't want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God.

Billy Graham

#23. Their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#24. ten dumb years I wanted things to be different furious proud I still feel it

Ikkyu

#25. Five days a week I drive from our home to the Episcopal Cathedral Center of Los Angeles where I have an office, my computer, and a wonderful sense of community - especially nurtured by the presence of several younger gay men and women who are good friends.

Malcolm Boyd

#26. No words would ever be more powerful than the presence of a friend.

Rachel L. Schade

#27. she said with a smile. "I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to
know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very
slowly.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. If Jesus is the heart of the church, people are the lifeblood. There is a reason He created community and told us to practice grace and love and camaraderie and presence. People soften the edges and fill in the gaps. Friends make up some of the best parts of the whole story.

Jen Hatmaker

#29. Let us live, my friends, and in living, keep alive our hope for a world made better by our presence in it.

Joseph Brassey

#30. What power--what importance--lies in the blank lines of an open notebook. Go and fill yours. Then share.

Penny Kittle

#31. I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#32. Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

Charlie Trotter

#33. In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

Thomas Keating

#34. I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

Russell M. Nelson

#35. The presence of a king engenders love
Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

William Shakespeare

#36. But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.

Jack Vance

#37. Money, you could say, was the elephant in The Room.

Greg Sestero