300 Quotes on Friends

• Spontaneous encounters paint life with unpredictable colors, revealing hidden threads of connection that dance luminescent disruptions into the mundane.

  Author: Theo Carmichael

• The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• 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.

  Author: Ernst Zundel

• As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

  Author: John Zorn

• Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

  Author: Niklas Zennstrom

• Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward.

  Author: Jason Zebehazy

• We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

  Author: Viktor Yushchenko

• And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

  Author: Robin Yount

• In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

  Author: Brigham Young

• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Author: Paramahansa Yogananda

• And say my glory was I had such friends.

  Author: William Yeats

• There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

  Author: William Yeats

• Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  Author: William Yeats

• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

  Author: William Yeats

• Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

  Author: William Wycherley

• It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

  Author: Steven Wright

• No, we'll never get back together. We'll remain friends, but I see her going in a completely different direction than me musically. But she'll end up doing really well if she continues on the path she's on. Because she's doing something very original.

  Author: John Wozniak

• I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

  Author: John Woolman

• Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends.

  Author: Ron Wood

• Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

  Author: Wayne Wonder

• We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

  Author: Scott Wolf

• My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

  Author: Jeanette Winterson

• I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

  Author: Connie Willis

• Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

  Author: Bruce Willis

• Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

  Author: Henry Williamson

• I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

  Author: Venus Williams

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

  Author: Edward Williams

• When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there.

  Author: Prince William

• Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

  Author: George Will

• An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• True friends stab you in the front.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• Many of my friends were blacklisted. America should be ashamed of it forever.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• I was never a part of the Actor's Studio, because two friends of mine started it in 1947 and by that time I'd gone to California.

  Author: Richard Widmark

• But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

  Author: Theodore White

• There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

  Author: Lisa Whelchel

• I met some friends in the end of 10th, beginning of 11th, who were in the popular group so I finished off high school in that group and got to see both sides.

  Author: Shane West

• By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

  Author: Shane West

• Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

  Author: Mary Wesley

• When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

  Author: Orson Welles

• We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

  Author: Fay Weldon

• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  Author: George Weinberg

• For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

  Author: Simone Weil

• Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

  Author: John Webster

• I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

  Author: Andrew Webber

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  Author: Karrie Webb

• Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

  Author: Bill Watterson

• Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

  Author: Emma Watson

• I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.

  Author: Stand Watie

• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  Author: George Washington

• By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

  Author: Mark Warner

• Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

  Author: Chris Ware

• I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.

  Author: Chris Ware

• In this play we're dealing with relative truths - who's lying, who's telling the truth. But underneath that, Ed and I have hit this deeper level of intimacy between old friends that comes out in the play.

  Author: Fred Ward

• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  Author: Patrick Warburton

• I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

  Author: Izaak Walton

• Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

  Author: John Walters

• I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

  Author: Margaret Walker

• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

  Author: Tom Waits

• I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

  Author: Nana Visitor

• My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

  Author: Thomas Vilsack

• I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

  Author: Dominique Villepin

• I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.

  Author: Milo Ventimiglia

• I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

  Author: Alexa Vega

• You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• I'm still very close friends with his first wife, Neile, who is now remarried.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

  Author: Stevie Vaughan

• But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

  Author: Jhonen Vasquez

• I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

  Author: Kathy Valentine

• You can change friends but not neighbours.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

  Author: Leon Uris

• Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

  Author: Robert Urich

• My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

  Author: Steven Tyler

• I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

  Author: Mark Twain

• When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

  Author: Mark Twain

• A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

  Author: Martin Tupper

• My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

  Author: Robin Tunney

• Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

  Author: Tanya Tucker

• Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

  Author: Sophie Tucker

• Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.

  Author: Michael Tucker

• Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

  Author: Harriet Tubman

• But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

  Author: Donald Trump

• I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends.

  Author: Donald Trump

• The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

  Author: Francois Truffaut

• In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

  Author: Rachel True

• In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

  Author: Verne Troyer

• I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years.

  Author: Jeanne Tripplehorn

• I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.

  Author: Michelle Trachtenberg

• I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him.

  Author: Rip Torn

• I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

  Author: Rip Torn

• I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.

  Author: Peter Tork

• When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

  Author: Carrot Top

• I also love to surf the Net and talk on the phone with friends.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads.

  Author: Kiana Tom

• The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

  Author: Meg Tilly

• No, but women are saying, and they say, are you crazy? But because they've had children since they were 20 years old. I haven't. So I had a child when I was 43, and now he's really out with his friends.

  Author: Cheryl Tiegs

• We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

  Author: Thucydides

• Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

  Author: Billy Thornton

• Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

  Author: Virgil Thomson

• And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• I have had lots of friends who've been affected by Aids and a very good friend of mine, Oscar Moore, died of Aids and I was with him in his last year quite a bit. And of course he was a man living in a very rich culture with a wealthy family who was able to afford health care.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

  Author: Emma Thompson

• I don't know one of my friends who is considered a conservative who has not had to go back and thoroughly think through everything. You do a lot of soul-searching - 'cause we are not going to win any popularity contests.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Author: Nikola Tesla

• Of my friends I am the only one left.

  Author: Terence

• He makes no friends who never made a foe.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

  Author: William Temple

• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  Author: Zachary Taylor

• I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

  Author: Rod Taylor

• Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

  Author: Niki Taylor

• The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.

  Author: Elizabeth Taylor

• I think all jocks have a sensitive side. It's just, will they show it to anybody? Will they let their guard down and stop being tough and the cool jock guy around their friends, or just relax? I don't know if it's best to say opening up, but just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

  Author: John Tanner

• And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives - family, friends, faith and freedom.

  Author: Bob Taft

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  Author: Tacitus

• I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

  Author: Antonio Tabucchi

• Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

  Author: Leo Szilard

• Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

  Author: Publilius Syrus

• Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

  Author: Max Sydow

• Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.

  Author: Hal Sutton

• But the drugs are kind of like taboo, at least among me and my friends and the people I've worked with.

  Author: Ethan Suplee

• Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.

  Author: Mats Sundin

• I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time.

  Author: Nicole Sullivan

• I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

  Author: William Styron

• I'm good friends with The Rock, and I talk to him all the time. And he says that, even though his movie career has taken off, he misses the instant gratification of wrestling, and the live crowds, and I could see being that way myself.

  Author: Trish Stratus

• Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  Author: W. Stone

• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  Author: W. Stone

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

  Author: Sharon Stone

• Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.

  Author: Peter Stone

• I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

  Author: Emma Stone

• My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.

  Author: Sting

• But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• 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.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

  Author: Robert Stevenson

• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• 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.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.

  Author: Craig Stevens

• It's wonderful to meet so many friends that I didn't used to like.

  Author: Casey Stengel

• I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes.

  Author: David Steinberg

• Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

  Author: Philip Stanhope

• It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today.

  Author: Layne Staley

• Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

  Author: Layne Staley

• Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto.

  Author: Scott Speedman

• I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

  Author: Britney Spears

• Christina Aguilera and I are friends no matter what the media makes up.

  Author: Britney Spears

• I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

  Author: Britney Spears

• My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

  Author: David Spade

• You win the victory when you yield to friends.

  Author: Sophocles

• I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that.

  Author: Suzanne Somers

• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  Author: Ian Somerhalder

• Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

  Author: Brittany Snow

• There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

  Author: Will Smith

• I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

  Author: Logan Smith

• The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

  Author: Logan Smith

• Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

  Author: L. Smith

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  Author: Kate Smith

• As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

  Author: Gordon Smith

• You know, true love really matters, friends really matter, family really matters. Being responsible and disciplined and healthy really matters.

  Author: Courtney Smith

• And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

  Author: Joshua Slocum

• Exercise? I get it on the golf course. When I see my friends collapse, I run for the paramedics.

  Author: Red Skelton

• It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.

  Author: Curt Siodmak

• We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

  Author: Matthew Simpson

• At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.

  Author: Jessica Simpson

• I refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie.

  Author: Gene Simmons

• I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it.

  Author: Shel Silverstein

• Fritz Lang was one of my dearest, dearest friends. I loved working with him.

  Author: Sylvia Sidney

• I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.

  Author: Hu Shih

• To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• I have a lot of friends and fans in Orlando, and I'd love to see them again.

  Author: Bobby Sherman

• I know you are going to be embarrassed. We're all embarrassed by it, but to hide the embarrassment... silence has never protected women or helped them. We need to talk about it more with our, you know - whoever - our friends, our family.

  Author: Cybill Shepherd

• When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  Author: George Shaw

• I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

  Author: Maria Sharapova

• Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

  Author: Garry Shandling

• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  Author: Garry Shandling

• Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

  Author: Merle Shain

• I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  Author: John Sexton

• I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

  Author: Robert Service

• The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.

  Author: Frank Serpico

• Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

  Author: Amartya Sen

• Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.

  Author: Tom Selleck

• Old friends are best.

  Author: John Selden

• The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

  Author: Amy Sedaris

• We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.

  Author: Leah Sears

• I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.

  Author: Sean Scott

• I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.

  Author: Sean Scott

• I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

  Author: Martin Scorsese

• I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

  Author: David Schwimmer

• With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!'

  Author: David Schwimmer

• I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff.

  Author: Jason Schwartzman

• Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.

  Author: Bruno Schulz

• You can't eat your friends and have them too.

  Author: Budd Schulberg

• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

  Author: Mary Schmich

• Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

  Author: Wally Schirra

• Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.

  Author: Sydney Schanberg

• I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.

  Author: Dick Schaap

• I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• Yeah, I love doing ensemble pieces. You get to meet so many new people and make new friends.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.

  Author: George Savile

• This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

  Author: Dick Sargent

• 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.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

  Author: George Santayana

• Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.

  Author: George Santayana

• Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

  Author: George Santayana

• Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

  Author: George Santayana

• I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

  Author: Sallust

• Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

  Author: Saint Sales

• Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

  Author: Ali Saleh

• For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me.

  Author: Andrei Sakharov

• I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.

  Author: Bob Saget

• The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.

  Author: Fred Saberhagen

• You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.

  Author: Winona Ryder

• I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

  Author: Lee Ryan

• I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.

  Author: Charles Russell

• Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

  Author: Charles Russell

• Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

  Author: Margaret Runbeck

• Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• We know the pain the president has caused our society and his family and his friends, but we know, too, how much the president has done for this country.

  Author: Charles Ruff

• I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

  Author: Rita Rudner

• But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.

  Author: Erno Rubik

• But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face lights up my world as no other can - well, this feeling too, when viewed as the mere psychologist has to view it, appears to be simply what all the other friends report about their friends.

  Author: Josiah Royce

• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

  Author: J. Rowling

• I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

  Author: Emily Rossum

• First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

  Author: Julius Rosenberg

• With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about.

  Author: Michael Rosenbaum

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