Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

Isaiah Berlin

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

Gloria Naylor

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Nelson Mandela

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

R. Lee Ermey

Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

R. Lee Ermey

Try as you may, you can never defy love.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince is also esteemed when he is a true friend and a true enemy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

Myles Munroe

True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

Mike Dooley

In the beginning, the price of giving great love is risking that it won't be returned. Until you understand, of course, that great love is always returned. With interest.

Keith Richards

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Keri Russell

The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.

Omar Suleiman

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are no true friends in politics.

Kiana Tom

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

Margaret Thatcher

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.

Honore de Balzac

To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.

Honore de Balzac

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, ...

It was true in the 19th century, and it's true today.

Jennifer Connelly

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

Bruce Paltrow

They said I wasn't pretty enough, ... That's a true story.

John Gibbons

They say things always even out in this game, I don?t know if it?s true or not. Sometimes it is.

This is going to be the truest 'Silly Season' we've ever had.

Herman Melville

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

Henry David Thoreau

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

Isaac Asimov

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Envy is destroyed by true friendship, as coquetry by true love.

Henri Frederic Amiel

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

Jacqueline Carey

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

Gao Xingjian

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Christian Louboutin

Be completely true to yourself and you'll be happy.