Friends Quotes - page 98

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. (George MacDonald)
I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. View quote
José Saramago
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. View quote
Steven Pressfield
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk. View quote
Larry Holmes
Thou through such a mist dost show us, That our best friends do not know us. View quote
Charles Lamb
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. View quote
Adrian Mitchell
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. View quote
Francis Bacon
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends." View quote
Francis Bacon
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. View quote
Francis Bacon
If another one of my Whole-Foods friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet. View quote
Patton Oswalt
The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves. (Van Jones)
I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active. View quote
Niall Ferguson
A very special human being...He had friends and admirers not just in India but also across the world who will now miss him. View quote
Sunil Dutt
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike. View quote
Natalie Portman
The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you. View quote
Natalie Portman
I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?' View quote
Natalie Portman
Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers. View quote
Natalie Portman
When did you last bask in the sun, friends? When did you last dare drink from a creek? When did you last risk picking fruit and eating it straight from the tree? What were your doctor's bills last year? Which of you live in cities where you don't wear a filtermask? Which of you spent this year's vacation in the mountains because the sea is fringed with garbage? View quote
John Brunner
I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day. View quote
Mitch Albom
Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends. View quote
John Muir
When I reached the [Yosemite] valley, all the rocks seemed talkative, and more lovable than ever. They are dear friends, and have warm blood gushing through their granite flesh; and I love them with a love intensified by long and close companionship. ... I ... bathed in the bright river, sauntered over the meadows, conversed with the domes, and played with the pines. (John Muir)
Now let's make this an evening Lovers for a night, lovers for tonight. Stay here with me, love, tonight. Just for an evening When we make Our passion pictures. You and me twist up, Secret creatures. And we'll stay here. Tomorrow go back to being friends. View quote
Dave Matthews
People's lives are a direct reflection of the expectations of their peer group. ... Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard. And that's the beauty of life. View quote
Anthony Robbins
If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you. View quote
Herta Müller
Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end? The stones from my enemies These wounds will mend But I cannot survive The roses from my friends. View quote
Ben Harper