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Quotes About Friends

Maybe. It's now or never." "Cameras and guards? It's a big risk." "But they have our friends." Alec nodded slowly. "Said like a true soldier." "Let's go, then.
~ James Dashner
And the influence of their peers can be utterly overwhelming. As their closest friends succumb to the trend of G.O.Y., many children feel pressured to match them for the sake of popularity and acceptance. And sadly, instead of stepping in to be the voice of reason, many parents are feeding into this cultural trend. Many
~ James Emery White
Why do statisticians never have friends? Because they're mean people.
~ James Geary
I have a feeling of - wanting to confront my enemies. No, of wanting to confront the enemy part of my friends.
~ James Kirkwood Jr.
Even friends can't be protected from fate, Han." -Droma
~ James Luceno
FOR IGNATIUS AND HIS friends, finding God often meant noticing where God was already active in their lives. And we can notice God not only in peak moments, like the ones we just discussed, but also in daily events where God's presence is often overlooked. God is always inviting us to encounter the transcendent in the everyday. The key is noticing.
~ James Martin
If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.
~ James Spader
Have some champagne, quick,' Bunny said. 'It's going flat.' 'Where is it?' 'In the teapot.
~ Donna Tartt
Sam Parks was simply a paid agent for his union, receiving the same salary as an ordinary workman in his trade. In reality, Baker tracked him "riding about in his cab, wearing diamonds, appearing on the street with his blooded bulldog, supporting his fast horses, 'treating' his friends.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I believe in the remade life, the possibilities inherent in our lesbian and gay chosen families, our families of friends and lovers, the healing that can take place among the most wounded of us. My family of friends has kept me alive through lovers who have left, enterprises that have failed, and all too many stories that never got finished. That family has been part of remaking the world for me.
~ Dorothy Allison
To save our friends' nerves, I suggest we meet on a plane of brutal courtesy. It need not interfere with our mutual distrust." -Francis Crawford of Lymond
~ Dorothy Dunnett
This is a clever bastard, my friends. I like that word entertainment, for instance.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Of course. You have always tried to escape.' 'And I have always harmed the friends who have tried to stop me,' Lymond said. His voice was uninflected. He added, 'I have tried many times to warn you not to come too close to me.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
That's a good name—ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.
~ Douglas Adams
He struck most of the friends he had made on Earth as an eccentric, but a harmless one—an unruly boozer with some oddish habits. For instance, he would often gate-crash university parties, get badly drunk and start making fun of any astrophysicists he could find till he got thrown out.
~ Douglas Adams
They'd ended up ordering pizza.
~ Douglas Preston
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
~ Aeschylus
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
~ Aeschylus
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
~ Aeschylus
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends
~ Aesop
I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.
~ Agatha Christie
Looking back, I can see that one of the things my friends had to suffer out of affection for me was my optimism about weather,
~ Agatha Christie
Just look, Letty." Miss Blacklock looked. Her eyebrows went up. She threw a quick scrutinizing glance round the table. Then she read the advertisement out loud. "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m. Friends please accept this, the only intimation.
~ Agatha Christie
It's the muddle-headed loyalty of friends and relations that makes a detective's life so difficult.
~ Agatha Christie