Friends quotes

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” Maya Angelou

“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” Muhammad Ali

“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.” Jim Morrison

“Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.” Kim Kardashian

“Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.” Kim Kardashian

“I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.” Kim Kardashian

“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.” Stephen King

“Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” Clive Staples Lewis

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.” Clive Staples Lewis

“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?” Anais Nin

“I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.” Barack Obama

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.” Barack Obama

“We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.” Barack Obama

“The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.” Barack Obama

“I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.” Barack Obama

“Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.” Barack Obama

“When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.” Henry Miller

“When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.” Marilyn Manson

“The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.” Michelle Obama

“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” Joel Osteen

“I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.” Dolly Parton

“I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.” Blaise Pascal

“If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” Blaise Pascal

“Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.” Blaise Pascal

“I'm only confrontational with my friends.” Chuck Palahniuk

“President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!” Mitt Romney

“President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.” Mitt Romney

“The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.” Ronald Reagan