Friends Quotes
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Talking about painful events doesn’t necessarily establish community – often quite the contrary. Families and organizations may reject members who air the dirty laundry; friends and family can lost patience with people who get stuck in their grief or hurt. This is one reason why trauma victims often withdraw and why their stories become rote narratives, edited into a form least likely to provoke rejection.
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Full of men, vacant of friends.
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One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.
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The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.
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We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
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Life without friends is death without witness.
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It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.
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Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.
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It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.
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I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.
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You have only three real friends: Jesus Christ, Sears Roebuck, and Gene Talmadge.
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Pete Buttigieg is one of my closest friends as a mayor.
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The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.
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My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
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I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us actually played any instruments so the band never quite got off the ground, BUT it made me go home and ask my parents for piano lessons. That was really the beginning for me. Once I started, it was all I wanted to do.
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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
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Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.
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Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.
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I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
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I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.
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Trauma has shut down their inner compass and robbed them of the imagination they need to create something better. The neuroscience of selfhood and agency validates the kinds of somatic therapies that my friends Peter Levine13 and Pat Ogden14 have developed. I’ll discuss these and other sensorimotor approaches in more detail in part V, but in essence their aim is threefold.
