Friends Quotes - Page 34

• My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

  Ole Hallesby

  Powerful, Prayer, Father

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Fate, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.269, Penguin

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• The loss of friends is a tax on age!

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Loss, Age, Taxes

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• Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  People, Painting, Made

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1871). “My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson's History”, p.191

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• Friends are ourselves.

  John Donne

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• Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

  Charles Hanson Towne

  Cities, Corners, Around The Corner

  Charles Hanson Towne (1919). “A World of Windows: And Other Poems”

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• The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sea, Yesterday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they have intervals of folly, whereof we take no heed, but wait the reappearings of the genius, which are sure and beautiful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Men, Waiting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.470

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• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Friend, Delight, World

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• If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

  Charles Bukowski

  Friendship, Jail, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.128, City Lights Books

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

  Robin Tunney

  Thinking, Brooks, Snob

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• 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

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Valentines Day, Mom, Directors

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• 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.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Party, Home, People

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• 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.

  Channing Tatum

  Thinking, Opening Up, People

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• 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.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Kids, Thinking, Funny Things

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• 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.

  Patrick Warburton

  Family Guy, Stuff, Yeah

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• 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

  Shane West

  School, Two Sides, Groups

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

  Shane West

  Senior, School, Years

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• 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.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Fear, War, America

  "It's Time We Called the Declaration of Independence's Bluff" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 4, 2016.

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• The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Religious, People, Conceit

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

  William Wycherley

  Book, Reading, Men

  William Wycherley (1964). “Miscellany poems concluded. Miscellaneous poems published from more correct copies. Hero and Leander in burlesque. The posthumous works”

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Selfishness, May

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• Lately, I cant shake the feeling that Ive been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I cant 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.

  Chris Ware

  Dream, Children, Years

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

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Wonderful, Used

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

  Robin Yount

  Good Friend, Thinking, Years

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