Friends Quotes
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From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.
David Grinspoon
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Jonathan Lethem -
I have lots of best friends, but my brother is the main one.
Alex Wolff -
A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place.
Patrick Henry -
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus -
A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.
Tyson Fury -
What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You're standing in front of an audience every night and the critics are not friends at all - and that's good for me as an entertainer because I want to grow. It also gives me the structure of remaining in one city so I can get creative in different ways.
Ricky Martin
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The dynamics are pretty much the same among me and my friends as they were when I was 18 years old.
Danny McBride -
I've been back to the Kansas City area a lot in the past. My sisters went to college in the area. My brother went to college in the area. I've got friends there, so there's some ties to the area.
Ben Zobrist -
My good friends call me Bobby.
Robert James Ritchi -
There's a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy.
Lidia Bastianich -
Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.
Publilius Syrus -
The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had so acted, and exercised proper skill in the management of our affairs, Mexico and ourselves would, by this time, have quietly and peaceably settled all difficulties and been good friends.
John C. Calhoun
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If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I would not follow, I would be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
Patrick Henry -
I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have to be kind of respectful, and that's what I try to do.
Joel Madden Good Charlotte -
Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
John Lancaster Spalding -
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.
Milla Jovovich
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At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.
Kenya Barris -
We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people their freedom, and the opportunity to live has humans. These are my friends, my family, and my fellow North Koreans.
Kang Chol-hwan -
If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism.
Barack Obama -
With my white friends, I’m always half Mexican. They never say I’m half Irish. Never say I’m half white. Like I’m tainted halfway from the standard. It’s like when I was a kid and I thought vanilla ice cream meant no flavor, like it was the base of all of the flavors. But vanilla is a bean. Like chocolate is a bean. Like cinnamon is a root. All roots and beans. All flavors. There is no base. No ice cream without a flavor.
Bill Konigsberg