Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs.
~By Greg Walden ~
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
~By Bernard Meltzer ~
As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.
~By Townsend Harris ~
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
A heart makes a good home for the friend.
~By Yunus Emre ~
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early.
~By Thom Gunn ~
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
~By Edgar Bergen ~
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
~By Chanakya ~
There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
~By Willie Stargell ~
You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.
~By Jennifer Beals ~
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Some people really trip on success or popularity. My friends would talk to me about that, about tripping on all this stuff, but you know what I tripped on? I started buying property.
~By Roy Ayers ~
I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.
~By Amanda Holden ~
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
~By George Catlin ~
'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.
~By Michael Irvin ~
The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
~By David Icke ~
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
~By Anjelica Huston ~
It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there.
~By Elmer Bernstein ~
We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
~By Viktor Yushchenko ~
So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
~By William Blake ~
I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
~By Maria Sharapova ~
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
~By Bill Griffith ~
Whether you like another band's music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.
~By Adam Rich ~
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
~By Harriet Tubman ~
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
~By Randolph Bourne ~
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
The band would play on the night off for the local hotel bands and we'd back all the different acts. So I'd been advised by good friends of mine to come back to Hawaii. Oh, I loved Honolulu, playing at a place right on the beach at Waikiki!
~By Martin Denny ~
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.
~By Li Peng ~
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
~By Barack Obama ~
Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
~By Orson Welles ~
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
~By William Powell ~
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
~By Aristotle ~
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
~By William Glasser ~
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
~By Jim Morrison ~
My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.
~By Neneh Cherry ~
I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.
~By Fred Savage ~
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
~By Dan Fouts ~
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
~By Henry Miller ~
I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
~By Christina Aguilera ~
I began working with the John Muir Institute and then started helping found Friends of the Earth organizations here and there in other countries. That pretty well brings us up to the present.
~By David R. Brower ~
The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
~By Jerry Seinfeld ~
I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.
~By Andrea Jung ~
This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
~By Benjamin Harrison ~
I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
~By Paul Getty ~
I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
~By Nicolas De Chamfort ~
Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
~By Billy Bob Thornton ~
Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
~By Adrienne Clarkson ~
If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends.
~By Lee Hazlewood ~
My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
~By Josh Hartnett ~
I like being scared every now and then, I like the suspense and the thrills. Nothing like taking a girlfriend to a movie and holding her hand while she jumps.
~By Scott Foley ~
I love football and beer and have a normal girlfriend.
~By Josh Duhamel ~
Chaos is a friend of mine.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
~By Aristotle ~
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
~By Virgil Thomson ~
I'd rather have friends who care than friends who agree with me.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~By Albert Camus ~
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
~By Frances Farmer ~
We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!
~By Mary-Kate Olsen ~
A lot of my friends are struggling musicians. Being a struggling actor, it's just frustrating because you're not allowed to do what you want to do.
~By Gina Gershon ~
It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.
~By Donal Logue ~
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
~By Carl Icahn ~
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
~By Mick Taylor ~
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
~By Anna Freud ~
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
~By Axl Rose ~
I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
~By Naomi Campbell ~
I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.
~By Julie Harris ~
Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
~By John Churton Collins ~
My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.
~By Margaret Cho ~
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
~By Confucius ~
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
~By Maya Angelou ~
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him.
~By Billy Bush ~
Friends are born, not made.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I said "No, I made a few mistakes."
~By Steven Wright ~
If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
~By Solomon Ibn Gabirol ~
I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.
~By Alyson Hannigan ~
George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.
~By Gary Wright ~
I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
~By Les Paul ~
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
~By Jane Austen ~
Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!
~By Gerard Way ~
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