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Quotes About Friends

Family matters, friends matter, love matters. Those you love and who love you matter. That's what writing does - it allows you to say all those things.
~ Richard Flanagan
You really need to stop and appreciate what you have, the love you have from your family, your friends, the love that you have for yourself.
~ Taboo
I love playing doubles. I've had some success out there and I've always loved playing with friends.
~ Jack Sock
My mom actually arranged for all my friends and I to have a makeup tutorial when we first started wearing makeup. That way, we learned how not to do our makeup.
~ Nina Agdal
Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.
~ Diane Ackerman
She was transcribing names and phone numbers from an old book to a new one. There were no addresses. Her friends had phone numbers only, a race of people with a seven-bit analog consciousness.
~ Don DeLillo
Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.
~ Donald Miller
I don't know how familiar you are with the Venetian audience, but the most complimentary thing that can be said of them is that they are dogs. They don't go to the theatre to listen to music or hear beautiful singing; they go to wear their new clothes and be seen in them by their friends, and those friends are there for the same reasons.
~ Donna Leon
I could hear a gaggle of Americans, couples, laughing, saying their loud goodbyes as they parted for their respective rooms: old college friends, jobs in the financial sector, five-plus years of corporate law and Fiona entering the first grade in the fall, all's well in Oaklandia, well goodnight then, God we love you guys, a life I might have had myself except I didn't want it.
~ Donna Tartt
Homecoming means parades, football and reuniting with old friends. And as I recall from my youth, a little beer.
~ Unknown
There are many things which are not needful. Riches are not needful. Health is not needful. Fine clothes are not needful. Noble friends are not needful. The favour of the world is not needful. Gifts and learning are not needful. Millions have reached heaven without these things. Thousands are reaching heaven every year without them. But no one ever reached heaven without "repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
~ J.C. Ryle
He and sin must quarrel, if he and God are to be friends.
~ J.C. Ryle
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44). This is to show the mind of Christ. This is the right way to heap coals of fire on an enemy's head and to melt foes into friends (Romans 12:20).
~ J.C. Ryle
Darth Vader is only interested in Luke's friends as bait. Maybe we can create a situation where they become friends, with Han and Leia and Vader all sitting down to dinner together—the evil Count having dinner with his enemies.
~ J.W. Rinzler
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
~ Unknown
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.
~ Jacques Barzun
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
~ Jacques Delille
When I wrote 'Fast Food My Way' in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other I've written in the past 30 years.
~ Jacques Pepin
One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.
~ Luke Rhinehart
transformation does not occur in isolation, nor does it typically occur within the same group of friends.
~ Unknown
is good to remember ourselves that it is our intangible assets – our family and friends, interests and passions – that are ultimately the greatest source of lifetime happiness.
~ Unknown
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11)
~ Lysa TerKeurst
We need to let our family and our friends know this truth—God is love, "and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him. —2 Nephi 26:33
~ M. Russell Ballard
As the years pass by, we'll glance at faded photographs recalling memories shared with special friends and family, never wanting it to end. Memories are the only thing left within the end." Judy
~ M. William Phelps