Best 1894 quotes in «friends quotes» category

We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.

We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful.

We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

We've been insufferable friends for years.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

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.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been about love for a brother. Or a father. Or a friend. It could just as easily have been a prayer.

When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly.

When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.

When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.

You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.

You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

Your mate doesn't live by bread alone; he or she needs to be 'buttered up' from time to time.

Your vanity and my vanity will never be friends.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.

A bad friend secretly plots your downfall

A bad friend is nothing but a spy

A big group of daily friends or a white painted house with bills and mirrors, are not a necessity to me—but an intelligent conversation while sharing another coffee, is.

A book can be a great friend, an advisor, a means to an end. A book reveals so much more than a movie would ever do. For example, when I watched the movie “The Hours” I was fascinated by the story. Just a year later I decided to read the book. And what was my surprise that I was even more dazzled by its writings than I was by the images… The images in my head were more vivid than the film could ever transport me to that feminine universe that the author was trying (and so successfully granted me) to conceive…

7 things negative people will do to you. They will... 1. Demean your value; 2. Destroy your image 3. Drive you crazily! 4. Dispose your dreams! 5. Discredit your imagination! 6. Deframe your abilities and 7. Disbelieve your opinions! Stay away from negative people!

A amizade é uma amostra totalmente tendenciosa da população; só escolhemos os melhores.

Adversity does not just introduce a man to himself. It also introduces, to him, his family, his friends, and his partner.

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board. Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.

A fake friend is someone that ridicules your feelings, steps on your emotions and gossips about you behind your back

A dream isn't worth living if you don't have friends to live it with.

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends.

A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.

A friend loves at all times.

A friend forgives quicker than enemy, and family forgives quicker than a friend.

After all we have few friends, if we don't show that we care about them, we will reach 0 friends...

After months of separation her friends still catalyzed her thoughts and challenged her opinions and wrangled with her emotions, and she was relieved to see that they still slid into the familiar patterns, the comfortable ruts of long-established personalities. It was nice but it also worried her. Could there be room for growth? How could you change around the people that knew you best, who knew you backwards and forwards and knew you so well that they defined themselves by you and you by them? How could you possibly evolve, like really evolve and become a whole person all on your own, when your own makeup was inextricably intertwined with someone else’s perception of themselves?

After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.

A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.

A friend will stand by you when you’re wrong. Anyone will stand by you when you’re right.

A friend is a family.