God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
~By Ethel Watts Mumford ~
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
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 ~
Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.
~By Joe Lando ~
I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
~By Dick Schaap ~
We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.
~By Sarah Palin ~
I don't see why I can't have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It's crazy.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
~By Johann Kaspar Lavater ~
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.
~By Francois Truffaut ~
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
~By Ovid ~
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
~By Francis Bacon ~
In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.
~By Verne Troyer ~
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends.
~By Winona Ryder ~
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.
~By Ernie Banks ~
David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.
~By Amy Sedaris ~
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
~By Muhammad Ali ~
My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
~By John Woo ~
If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.
~By David Kirk ~
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 ~
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
~By Caroline Norton ~
At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.
~By Dick Murphy ~
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
~By Will Champion ~
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I used to have friends come on tour and work as my drum tech, but they get bummed out when I have to tell them what to do. This time I'm just going to fly them out and let them hang. It's all good.
~By Travis Barker ~
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
~By Eric Brown ~
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.
~By Glenn Danzig ~
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
~By Cleveland Abbe ~
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice.
~By Kim Novak ~
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
~By Whitney Houston ~
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
~By George Santayana ~
Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
~By Garry Shandling ~
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
~By Warren Christopher ~
I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.
~By Elizabeth David ~
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
~By Homer ~
The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.
~By Shirley Knight ~
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.
~By Petra Nemcova ~
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
~By Nikola Tesla ~
This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.
~By Dick Sargent ~
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
~By George Santayana ~
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.
~By Jessica Simpson ~
I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie.
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
~By Edgar Watson Howe ~
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 ~
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 ~
From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
~By Louise Fletcher ~
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
~By John D. MacDonald ~
I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.
~By Rip Torn ~
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.
~By Barry McGuire ~
Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.
~By Mark Hoppus ~
But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
~By Alicia Machado ~
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.
~By Norman MacCaig ~
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 ~
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends.
~By Donald Trump ~
What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.
~By George Carey ~
Love is friendship set on fire.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
~By Margaret Cavendish ~
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.
~By Jim Walsh ~
But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
~By Irene Dunne ~
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
~By Robert Blair ~
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
~By Frances Cornford ~
I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
~By Meryl Streep ~
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.
~By Charlie Kaufman ~
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
~By Robert Burton ~
I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.
~By Luke Perry ~
When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
~By Mario Batali ~
I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.
~By Pink ~
I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.
~By Calista Flockhart ~
It's a job - someone's gotta kiss Jennifer Aniston. The reality is, Jennifer and I can do our job well because we truly are friends. But when the day's over, she goes home to her boyfriend and I go home to a magazine.
~By David Schwimmer ~
I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
~By John Woolman ~
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~By Frank Serpico ~
The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.
~By Lil' Kim ~
I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.
~By William Kidd ~
The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.
~By Joan Blades ~
I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.
~By David Schwimmer ~
What encouragement the apostle holds out to us. O my friends, that we might leave all our pretensions, and come to the truth in our own hearts.
~By Elias Hicks ~
I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
~By Whitney Houston ~
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