Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Fenelon

God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

Geddy Lee

I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.

Heather Graham

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

Hilary Duff

No, I'm not! I'm not a tomboy! I love my makeup! That's not true! I'm not a tomboy!

Mary Renault

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

Mary Schmich

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

Mother Teresa

Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship

Mike Johanns

The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.

Mark Strand

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

Mariella Frostrup

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Mortimer Adler

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

Philip Sidney

Yet sighes, deare sighes, indeeds true friends you are That do not leave your left friend at the wurst, But, as you with my breast, I oft have nurst So, gratefull now, you waite upon my care.

Peter De Vries

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Eckhart Tolle

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thou shalt learn The wisdom early to discern True beauty in utility.

Henri Nouwen

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Henri Nouwen

It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

Laurence J. Peter

A true friend will see you through when others see that you are through.

Meg Cabot

But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

Plato

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Kay Panabaker

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

Norman MacCaig

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

Oriana Fallaci

True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.

The Truest of the True is pervading everywhere; He instructs those with whom He is pleased.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

John C. Maxwell

True Leadership always begins with the inner person.

Ellen G. White

Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.

Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Emily Giffin

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

Simon Sinek

A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.

Tim Robbins

I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.

Scott Ritter

I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.