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Friend Quotes (page 39)

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls, you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone. Jean-Paul Sartre
Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out. Alan Watts
A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come."And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we. Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost. Stephen Crane
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.. Paul Theroux
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary John Steinbeck
Oscar Levant quote: "I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me"
I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me Oscar Levant
Lady Gaga quote: "My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead..."
My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me. Lady Gaga
...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place. Terry Goodkind
Jodi Picoult quote: "I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be..."
I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend. Jodi Picoult
Epicurus quote: "It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the..."
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us Epicurus
William Goldman quote: "There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a..."
There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them. William Goldman
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. Kurt Vonnegut
[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is... Neil Gaiman
Tom Dancer’s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom... Mary Oliver
Jeff Buckley quote: "Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell..."
Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more. Jeff Buckley

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