My Friends Quotes - Page 25

• A generous friendship no cold medium knows,
  Burns with one love, with one resentment glows;
  One should our interests and our passions be,
  My friend must hate the man that injures me.

  Homer

  Friendship, Hate, Passion

  Homer (1813). “The Iliad”, p.220

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• Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Warning, Information

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “Under my skin”

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• When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, "I knew he was mortal." So we in all casualties of life should say "I knew my riches were uncertain, that my friend was but a man." Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected.

  Plutarch

  Son, Men, Riches

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• To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

  L. Frank Baum

  Different, Spices, Variety Is The Spice Of Life

  L. Frank Baum (2008). “8 Books in 1: L. Frank Baum's "Oz" Series, Volume 2 of 2. Little Wizard Stories of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Scarecrow Of Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Lost Princess Of Oz,”, p.430, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• English doctors have killed 3/4 of my friends & the joke is the remaining 1/4 go on recommending them, so odd is human nature.

  Nancy Mitford

  Doctors, Goes On, Human Nature

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• [On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Dog, Four, Intervention

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• my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Sea, News, Conversation

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.51, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

  Anne Lamott

  God, Father, Personality

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.11, Anchor

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• I'm not an addict and I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize, but it is what it is and I can't change the past. And I can apologize to my family and my friends and my colleagues and the people.

  Rob Ford

  Mistake, Past, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• I give up so much to do what I do. Like, I give up a personal life. I give up my friends, my family. I give up a lot of stuff to pursue what I love and to make my fans happy. I give up so much. So, I'm going to be the best.

  Justin Bieber

  Giving Up, Fans, Stuff

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Honestly, I don't try to guess at what most people want. I don't think I'd guess right, and I just think that that's not a good recipe for storytelling. I try to write what I like, what I think my friends would like.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I'd like people to like me. I think most of my friends like me! I'm real and I get in trouble for speaking my mind. I will definitely tell you the truth because I have to. I get in trouble that way.

  Keith Michael

  Real, Thinking, Speaking My Mind

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Country, Paris, Quitting

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.18

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• I still give my friends relationship advice, of course, and I'm not bad at it. 'Anyone's crisis but mine' is my motto.

  Carrie Fisher

  Giving, Advice, Motto

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• At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

  Ruth Gordon

  Lying, Who Cares, Looks

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

  Ludovico Ariosto

  Death, Regret, World

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• My friend, judge not me,
  Thou seest I judge not thee;
  Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
  Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

  William Camden

  Judging, Judgment, Mercy

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• Each one could be a Jesus mild,
  Each one has been a little child,
  A little child with laughing look,
  A lovely white unwritten book;
  A book that God will take, my friend,
  As each goes out at journey's end.

  John Masefield

  Jesus, Children, Book

  John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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• ... I have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Disappointment, Succeed, Excellent

  Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.185, Broadview Press

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• In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Artist, Hands

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• I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.

  Rachel Trachtenburg

  New York, Missing, Really Sad

  The New Yorker, September 9, 2002.

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• Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I can, I enjoy my beloved, my family, my friends, my apprentices. But mainly I enjoy myself, because I am with myself all the time. Why should I spend my precious time with myself judging myself, rejecting myself, creating guilt and shame? Why should I push myself to be angry or jealous? If I don't feel good emotionally, I find out what is causing it and I fix it. Then I can recover my happiness and keep going with my story.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Family, Happiness, Friends

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• Once I graduated from NYU, I started making custom vintage tees for my friends and it just took off from there.

  Charlotte Ronson

  Vintage, Nyu, Tees

  "Arizona 20 Years: Charlotte Ronson". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Space, Experts

  "President Obama’s JFK Moment" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2010.

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