Quotes about friend

Nine Inch Nails -

What have I become?My sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end.And you could have it all:my empire of dirt.I will let you down.I will make you hurt.

Sidney Sheldon - A Stranger In The Mirror

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Never let money be the reason why you betray your close companion. You may not have the joy to spend it because you are supposed to enjoy that money with that companion you betrayed! Do not love money love the reason for which money exist.

Paul Bamikole -

Never be in a hurry to condemn a friend never be in haste to embrace an enemy.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Don’t shout my friend no one gives you the shit unless you make them.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient don’t rush things!

William Arthur Ward -

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Hugo Black -

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

James Dobson -

One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.

Umberto Eco -

Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

John W. Snow -

Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.

David Spade -

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

Eddie Redmayne -

As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

Gillian Jacobs -

A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'

Dean Ornish -

If you're with a close friend, your anger may raise his blood pressure as well as your own, whereas loving feelings may lower blood pressure in both of you.

Akhenaton -

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Yunus Emre -

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

Criss Jami - Healology

Friends ask you questions enemies question you.

Debasish Mridha -

Never hate an enemy love them and transform them into a friend.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder

Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely they are aware of the consequences.

Aldo Leopold -

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

Charles Schwab -

You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively.

Carrie Preston -

I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!

Holly Hunter -

I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days.

David Harewood -

I didn't go abroad until quite late. A friend drove us to Amalfi, Italy, for his sister's wedding when I was a teenager. It was exciting driving through Europe.

John Kasich -

I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn't think the way I do, doesn't mean that I can't care about them or can't love them.

Nancy Pearcey -

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

Debasish Mridha -

A friend is an open sky with whom you can open wings of your mind to fly.

Debasish Mridha -

A true friend is like an umbrella that opens her heart to protect you on those rainy days.

Debasish Mridha -

A true friend pays attention without seeking it.

Debasish Mridha -

We are our best friend and our worst enemy we will ever fight with.

Shawn Lukas -

I had spent many years living with a plain piece of canvas just right on my face as a headboard for my bed. As the years passed by, I watched it slowly transforming into a work of art which still lives above my head. And that my friend, is truly living art.

Sandra Kring - The Book of Bright Ideas

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

Emily Thorne -

When at a crossroads, my father was fond of saying “go with your gut.” “Intuition,” he said, “always has our best interests at heart.” It is a voice that can tell us who is friend and who is foe…Which ones to hold at arm’s length…And which ones to keep close. But too often, we become distracted by fear, doubt, our own stubborn hopes, and refuse to listen.

R.J. Palacio -

I thought it would teach them a thing or two about empathy, and friendship, and loyalty. As it turns out, Jack Will didn't need to learn any of these virtues- he already had them in abundance.

Leigh Bardugo - Crooked Kingdom

Kaz had always kept himself at a remove from everyone. They’d wanted camaraderie, friendship, but he had never agreed to play their game, only his own.

Rebecca McNutt -

There's always one sure way of finding out that you're a misfit. When you're eleven years old, and your friends are telling you that they just sneaked into the theater to watch 'Twilight' and that it was "sooooo emotional and sooooo terrifying and soooooo romantic!" - but you've been spending the summer watching 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Don't Look Now' and knowing the lines to all the Alfred Hitchcock films by heart - that's the moment you realize that you're a misfit.

John Scalzi - Old Man's War

She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.

Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

Deyth Banger -

Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...

Timothy J. Keller - The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

Jack Higgins - The Eagle Has Landed

May you find what you are searching for, my friend.– I already have and lost it in the finding.

Rebecca McNutt - Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog City Novel

Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.

Will Leamon -

If your dog, your best friend turns on you, take a good look at yourself. You may have a serious personality disorder.

Rachel Van Dyken - The Consequence of Loving Colton

I am not your sexless friend. I’m not your damn brother. I’m not your gay friend. And I sure as hell not am not thinking about anything right now except that your hands feel really good against my skin. So I’m going to kiss you, and you’re going to respond like the idea of my mouth on yours doesn’t make you want to cry – and you’ll like it

Vinita Kinra -

A true friend is someone who knows what you want before you ask for it.

Tsuyoshi Fujitaka - My Big Sister Lives in a Fantasy World: The World's Strongest Little Brother?!

Um, are you writing one of those isekai (Another World) novels? What’s the title?” Yuichi asked.Kanako: “Um, the title is My Demon Lord is Too Cute to Kill and Now the World is in Danger!”Yuichi: "I can’t really imagine what that would entail..." Yuichi felt a little disappointed. He’d been hoping she might have written something a little cuter.

Marianne Curley -

Now she smiles as if I'm her favorite chocolate bar. "And I love you, Jordan.

Ida Hattemer-Higgins - The History of History

She stood in the mirror portrait very near Margaret, close next to her, good as a mother or a friend.

Virginia Alison -

Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again.

John -

Friendship improves happiness, abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

Himanshu Chhabra -

Day must be an exciting friend, but night is a truthful one.

Lindsay Detwiler - Voice of Innocence

As we change, we sometimes outgrow our friendships. And, since we cannot change this fact, it is best to simply accept it for what it is in order to appreciate the power that the friend had in your life when he or she was a part of it.

Rebecca McNutt - Super 8: The Sequel to Smog City

I know what I'm talking about, Alecto! When I think of Jud, I think of the times he wanted to be a coal miner, the times he took Wendy and me sailing in the harbour, the times he showed me how to play soccer, but I forgot all the bullying and I’ll never understand why. And now you ask me, you ask me what happened once we were in high school. You said you didn’t understand what having a family was like, so ask me!” Mandy was shouting at him without even realizing it, her words sharp and unforgivi

Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - Divided & Conquered

To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

Sophocles - Ajax

Shall not ILearn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,Only so much to hate my enemy,As though he might again become my friend,And so much good to wish to do my friend,As knowing he may yet become my foe?

Erik Pevernagie -

Some seem to be desynchronized in their relationships. They feel oppressed, because they cannot move forward together and at the same pace. Their thinking is often incongruent, their motivation disparate. The phone could be a mediator, as it creates an impression to be a perfect reliable friend. However, in the end, it causes rather a sense of isolation, since it divides more than it unites. Eventually it appears not to be such a good friend but only a ghost friend. ( "Kein Schwein ruft mich an"

Peter Graham -

Books allow us to escape from the pressures of modern life. By far, the best vehicles of escape are Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy genre allowing us to lose ourselves in worlds far away from the reality we know. This escapism works because we totally immerse ourselves and:-We become the hero or heroine. We are the ones who thwart evil. We laugh as we socialise with characters we have never met but feel they are as close as our family. We cry when we lose a good friend.

Chirag Tulsiani -

And one day when you wake up, you happen to realise that your battle isn’t with the man you had got into a brawl with the other day, it isn’t with a friend turned foe, it isn’t with those parents who chose to give up on you, it isn’t with the bus driver for not having waited until you got in, it isn’t with the employer who cancelled the application to your leave, it isn’t with the examiner who resolved into failing you, it isn’t with the woman who did not reciprocate your feelings, it isn’t with

Mary Jane Hathaway - Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread

Maybe I should have got some chili-slaw dogs from Shorty’s. Everybody loves those.” “Buddy,” Lars said, dropping his shoes to the deck with a thump, “sit yourself down and stop fussing. You’re reminding me of my Aunt Glynna with all this temperature takin’ and foil tuckin’. This food is fine.

George R.R. Martin - A Feast for Crows

Silence is a prince's friend.

Leigh Bardugo - Six of Crows

She knew she should say something profound, something beautiful in response. Instead, she spoke the truth. "If we make it out of here alive, I'm going to kiss you unconscious.

Lauren Dane - Taking Care of Business

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Theognis -

I will blame no enemy that is a good man, nor yet praise a friend that is bad

Henry Enfield Roscoe -

Describing Robert Bunsen:As an investigator he was great, as a teacher he was greater, as a man and friend he was greatest.

Robert Louis Stevenson -

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Sharvani Akula -

Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd a True Friend is as great as Friendship.

Nutan Bajracharya -

In this world it is not possible that everyone will follow your steps. You can't change some one and some one will not change their lifestyle because of you.

Damien Echols - Life After Death

Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.

honeya -

When you are not needed, you are not needed. Period!

James Salter - Light Years

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two.

pavankumar nagaraj -

Whenever you are depressed ,write your signature on a paper and write and write finally you ll have pain in you hand than your mind.

Patrick Carman - Pulse

You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?

Scott Westerfeld - Uglies

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

Deyth Banger -

Death is easy, you just take the gun or the knife and you just start to suicede by your own or you tell to somebody who is relative to you or somebody who is a friend it doesn't matter and you give him the gun or you say to him what to do and he kills you. This is easy, we aren't born to give up, we aren't born to die let's make ways, let's make our choices, even if you are down in the misearble place and you have lost hope and everything. You mustn't give up continue, stand up say that you won'

Sarah Brocious - Nolan's Evolution

He rolled his eyes. "I will never not be worried about you! That's close to impossible." He ran a hand over his face in frustration. "I wish for one moment you could feel what its like to be a Protector. I can't think of anything else, Raina, not even myself. It's what I am...it's all I am at the moment." ~Thanatos

Harold Hobbs -

One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.

Colin Higgins - Harold and Maude

No man can see himself unless he borrows the eyes of a friend

Nalini Singh - Angels' Flight

I won't take advantage of you. Today, I'll be your friend.""Fen has been my friend for decades," she said, sliding her arm into his when he offered it to her. "And he never presumed to put his mouth on mine.""Obviously I'll be a different kind of friend.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Be the type of friend you would like to have.

Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre

-But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.

Christopher Hawke - Unnatural Truth

Such a profound occurrence, when the priorities of those in our lives shine so brightly a path away from who we once thought they were. This light sears insights onto us and helps us along our way. I wonder at times if my old friend hope is my only. She is a relentless presence who will never cease to be--a lone wanderer meeting me time and time again along this road.

Priyansh Shah -

In todays world the ones you trust are the ones who betray you who are your true friends ?

Tahereh Mafi - Shatter Me

Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - The Little Prince

If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.

Dan Wells - Fragments

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Mark Driscoll - and Life Together

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

Amanda Stone -

I looked at my friend. I don’t know what I had done to deserve her friendship but she was always there for me. She was there before my whole world came crashing down, she was there after, and she would be there ‘til they laid us both in the ground, side by side with matching tombstones that read best on one, and friends on the other—yeah it was morbid that we had this all planned out, but that was just us.

İamx -

My secret friend,Oh, take me to the river.My secret friend,So we can swim forever.

Timothy J. Keller - The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "sympathy" - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.

Jayne Bauling - In Pursuit of Love

I've been thinking. You'd better be my bridesmaid, since you gave me the idea that led to this whole farce. It's a horrible job, I'm sure, so you deserve it. Plus, you're my friend. Will you do it?

Lois McMaster Bujold - Shards of Honour

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

Rachel Bertsche - MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend

Popular culture has made it okay to yell "I want a man!" from the rooftops, so why are we still embarrassed to say, "I want a best friend"?

Douglas Jerrod -

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend.

Hiroko Sakai -

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

Beth Fantaskey - Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

My greatest friend is truth.

Hiroko Sakai -

Real Friends' are someone who are right next to you when you got in emergency, not in only parties.