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Quotes About Friend

I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.
~ Helen Keller
I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
~ Debra Winger
I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.
~ Tony Kushner
I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.
~ Ryan Gosling
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in Afghanistan, but a representative government that respects human rights, protects its own people, and is a friend of the West. These are very realistic - and necessary - goals.
~ Oliver North
Yeah, I was going to have no features on 'Bulletproof.' But I ended up putting Gucci Mane on it. That's just my partner. He's just one of my personal friends. It ain't no different for him from my homeboys in Memphis. I just have a real personal relationship. I met Gucci Mane through my partner Drumma Boy, the producer.
~ Young Dolph
I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.
~ Jon Cryer
Rage -- that old familiar friend that got him through the hardest of times.
~ Sophie Jordan
You can just be your self's stranger, never its friend, because you are mortal and it is immortal!
~ Sorin Cerin
I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
~ Michelle Sagara
If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch's works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.
~ Robin Maxwell
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
~ Thomas Campbell
Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...
~ Rafael Reyes
Read nature nature is a friend to truth.
~ Edward Young
Then, my friend, let the songs be sung as Zandalari lamentations. He stood and started down the mountain. Let them be sung for a thousand generations and serenade us into eternity.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.
~ Michael Cunningham
The reality is that love of God is expressed fully as love of both friend and enemy.  It
~ Michael Hardin
There are many legends which say the past was perfect or that the future will be perfect. I have seen many pasts and many futures. None of them were perfect, my friend.
~ Michael Moorcock
In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel; the sea is both friend and enemy, and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behaviour in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion.
~ Michael Oakeshott
Those maps always oppressive with faith, as if the only purpose in life was to journey from one church altar to another rather than cross the meticulous blue of a river to reach a distant friend.
~ Michael Ondaatje
One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.
~ Christopher Jackson
I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left the guitar at our house for nine months.
~ David Walton