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Quotes About Friends

ask a group of your friends about their smoking histories some time over dinner—keeping in mind that smoking is at the top of the list of hardest addictions to quit.)
~ Stanton Peele
In the last analysis it seems likely that they were wiser than I, all those friends in Vienna, because they suffered everything only when it really happened, whereas I had already suffered the disaster in advance in my fantasy, and then again when it became reality.
~ Stefan Zweig
Come home, come home, you million ghosts, The honest years shall make amends, The sun and moon shall be your hosts, The everlasting hills your friends.
~ Stella Benson
So… this business trip of yours?" "What about it?" "Are you and Coop sharing a room?" She raised her eyebrows, then said, "Right back at you, Cowboy." "Liz and I are just friends." "Uh-huh. I hope your shots are up-to-date." "Meow.
~ Stephanie Bond
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. — RITA MAE BROWN
~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults.
~ Confucius
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
~ Arthur Rubinstein
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
What I hope my liberal friends (and I have more than a few) take from this pontificate is that mercy and truth are never separable in Catholic pastoral life.
~ George Weigel
I'd like people to like me. I think most of my friends like me! I'm real and I get in trouble for speaking my mind. I will definitely tell you the truth because I have to. I get in trouble that way.
~ Keith Michael
Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
~ William Butler Yeats
A band should only think national," he told Boston Rock. "Selling records to a local market is a hobby, like making records for your friends. It doesn't justify the cost and effort.
~ Michael Azerrad
I also think of some books as my friends and i like to have them around. They brighten my life.
~ Michael Dirda
The most important thing you can do is to make sure you build a loving, informed, and loyal team around you. That includes family. That includes friends. And that surely includes a community of trusted experts—everyone from doctors to financial advisers. Why? Because the best decision-making is not just about what you feel in your gut or even read in this book. It's about triangulating several opinions and insights from people who love you—and who may know more than you do.
~ Michael F. Roizen
We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets, never to be reconciled, to our fellow-country men, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family to our children. We have to go through not two slits at the same time but twenty-two. All we can do is to look afterwards, and see what happened.
~ Michael Frayn
Not even Steve Bannon thought this was a good idea. "I was fucking nervous as shit," Bannon later told friends. "I go," Holy
~ Michael Lewis
Alcoholism is a disease," she said. "Like athlete's foot. Or herpes. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Luker and I have lots of friends who are alcoholics. And speed freaks too." "Well
~ Michael McDowell
While I have used real names and characters and historical situations I have also used more personal pieces of friends and fathers. There have been some date changes, some characters brought together, and some facts have been expanded or polished to suit the truth of fiction.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.
~ Richard V. Allen
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
~ Joseph Conrad
I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
~ Nate Ruess
This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
~ Horace