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Quotes About Friend

Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.
~ Frederick Lenz
Words need not be spoken aloud, friend, to prove unwelcome. I but answered my own thoughts.
~ Steven Erikson
Lord Fangatooth held up his fist and said, "This is a game of murder, my friend, and I mean to win it or die trying!
~ Steven Erikson
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
~ Steven Spielberg
The student loan director from my bank called. He said, "You've missed seventeen payments, and the university never received the $17,000. We'd like to know what happened to the money." I said, "Mr. Jones, I'll give it to you straight. I gave the money to my friend Slick, and he built a nuclear weapon with it. And I'd appreciate it if you'd never call again."
~ Steven Wright
My friend would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.
~ Steven Wright
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
~ Steven Wright
There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
~ Stevie Smith
They're the strongest creatures I know and they'd make a formidable ally in the coming war. Perhaps…just perhaps, Thirrin could make a friend of them and bring them into the struggle. If anyone can do it, she can. She could make peace between night and day, between dark and light if she wanted.
~ Stuart Hill
but the effects of abandonment apply to all types of loss and disconnection, whether it's loss of a job, a dream, or a friend. It may be a loss of one's home, health, or sense of purpose. Abandonment is a psychobiological process.
~ Susan Anderson
I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.
~ Valerie Harper
Some of us have tough lives and find chocolate is a comfort and a friend. And some of us prefer a night on the sofa with Ant & Dec to hitting the gym. But whatever your excuse - and there is always an excuse - we are a nation of fatties.
~ Katie Hopkins
In the 70s I started doing my Big Night Out on stage when I was at art school. A friend of mine owned a comedy club and sold it to me. I worked out quite quickly that if I did the comedy myself I'd make more money.
~ Vic Reeves
We must never forget that the cosmos exists solely to help those who want to help themselves. It is an incredibly powerful force and a wonderful friend for all who adopt a positive approach to life.
~ Noel Edmonds
Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
~ Bill Medley
I've dealt with a lot of people with bad intentions. Just because somebody has a following does not mean that they are a good person or a good friend.
~ Emma Chamberlain
...I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I love the romcom. I thought I had a career playing the best friend. What happened to that? It's really sad to me.
~ Parker Posey
Joy is a loyal companion, love is a faithful friend, fear is a terrible adversary, and hatred is a merciless enemy.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If she had spurned gifts from fate or God or some other earnest substitute, she would never feel it in that way. She felt like someone of whom she was fond, an old and future friend of herself, still unspent and up ahead somewhere, like a light that moves.
~ Moore Lorrie
for I could no longer think of him as lord, viscount, duke's son; he was my comrade now
~ Nancy Springer
From what you say, I infer that time is the friend of the person who trains his mind to follow positive thought-habits and the enemy of the person who drifts into negative thought-habits.
~ Napoleon Hill
I've seen many strange things in my work, my friend, but a wealthy lawyer who leaves everything to go write sonnets is not part of the repertoire. -Ricardo Salvador
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Rest now, my friend. Heaven can wait. And hell is too small for you.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon