Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Viktor Yushchenko

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

Ville Valo

I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

Victor Hugo

Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.

Viktor E. Frankl

Those who know how close the connection is between the state of mind of a man-his courage and hope, or lack of them-and the state of immunity of his body will understand that the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect. The ultimate cause of my friend's death was that the expected liberation did not come and he was severely disappointed.

Vanna Bonta

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

Sophocles

I cannot love a friend whose love is words.

Sophocles

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Stephen King

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Sophie Swetchine

He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.

Soren Kierkegaard

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Rumi

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Tom Peters

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.

Toby Keith

There's some nights I can't remember with friends I can't forget.

Scott Wolf

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

Sue Wicks

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

Steven Tyler

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

Robert Browning

Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.

Robert Browning

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Mariah Carey

Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

Mignon McLaughlin

After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

Mason Cooley

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

Paul Cezanne

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Liv Ullmann

Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked to each other, not just pitter patter but real talk. We shouldn't be afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable too. It's so much easier to be together when we drop our masks.

Bill Bradley

Lowell has been a friend for many years. He is someone I respect. I think he is someone who is respected in American life as a stand-up guy,

Leroy Marsh and John Friend made me what I am today,

She was a fun, friendly person. Here every day, and she was a hard worker. She is going to be missed.

Jessica Brown

She was a friend to all of us, a mother to all of us.

Abraham Lincoln

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.