Quotes about friend

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“Friends are born, not made.”

“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.”

“If you desire to help thy friend, do so in a way that will not bring thy friend's burdens upon thyself.”

“To participate requires self-discipline and trust and courage, because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, as my friend Dale puts it, How alive am I willing to be?”

“Sisters are the true friends who ask how you are, and then wait to hear the answer.”

“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street.”

“A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.”

“Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.”

“Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.”

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”

“My books are friends that never fail me."

(; 17 March 1817)”

“sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend”

“No one told you to call your band Salacious Mold, my friend."
"We're Millennium Lint now," Simon protested”

“Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.”

“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

“I want to touch you in real time
not find you on YouTube,
I want to walk next to you in the mountains
not friend you on Facebook.”

“Friends don't count the cost of favors.”

“No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!”

“It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”

“You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends."
Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.”

“A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.”

“All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.”

“people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.”

“You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”

“The nice thing about having a friend who is crazier than you are is that she bolsters your belief in your own sanity.”

“This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.”

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”

“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”

“With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.”

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.”

“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.”

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

“You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.”

“So I thought if I stopped being so, you know, wounded, we could take a shot at just being friends. - Peeta Mellark”

“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”

“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”

“Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.”

“If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?”

“Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?”

“Tis a strange thing, that the only friends I have I found in the same way, lying flat in the meadows, crying as if their hearts would break.”

“So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?"
I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?”

“Clary," he said. "You're Clary. You're my best friend.”

“We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it official. It just is.”

“Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”

“I wouldn't mind meeting a dashing thief," the woman's friend whispered. Hale winked at Kat.

Kat raised her eyebrows and whispered, "I'd like to meet one of those, too.”

“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.”

“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”

“Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.”

“Are you out of your mind?"
It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.”

“Well, I hate to tell you this," she said, "but your friend is an asshole."
"He's not my friend," said Simon. "And I couldn't agree with you more, actually."
-Maia & Simon about Jace, pg.49-”

“I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea’s neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend’s windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.”

“Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.”

“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”

“I’d have been dead a long time ago if not for my friends, one of whom had just jumped off the cliff after me.
I’d have been a lot more appreciative if he hadn’t pushed me first." ~Cassandra Palmer”

“Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.”

“What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.”

“It is important to have questionable friends you can trust unconditionally.”

“A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well.”

“To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.”

“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”

“I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.”

“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.”
“I’m outraged!” I snarled. “That bastard!”
“Thank you,” Andrea said.”

“Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?”

“I can be a good friend, or a bad enemy.”

“And things were back to normal except we were just friends.”

“You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”

“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.”

“Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.”

“People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?”

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”

“Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly
life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are
strong enough to lead it!”

“I often think," she said, "that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems to forlorn without them.”

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

“Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.”

“One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.”

“When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it.

-Sheriff Andy Taylor”

“My chest of books divide amongst my friends.”

“Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.”

“The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.”

“They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.”

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

“I can't believe he took you to an actual resteraunt. I assumed his idea od a date would be making you watch him play World of Warcraft with his nerd friends.”

“Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!”

“Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again”

“I sucked blood from one of my best friends”

“I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.”

“No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.”

“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”

“I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.”

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”

“Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.”

“Why should any guy want to be only friends with a girl? It’s like agreeing to be near a chocolate cake and never eat it. It’s like sitting in a racing car but not driving it.”

“I blend in the backgroud. when I arive for lunch my friends are surprised i'm not already there.”

“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.”

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”

“Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.”