The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well. — Alex Gaskarth
Good friends are those who care without hesitation, who remember without limitation and who love even without communication — Philippos Syrigos
Best friends listen to what you don't say. — Samantha Norman
Your closest friends are the ones you can have a relationship with about nothing. — Naval Ravikant
Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends. — Jeffrey Archer
True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other — Keith Richards
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. — Joseph Parry
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. — C.J. Langenhoven
True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart — Helen Keller
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there. — Judith Viorst
Family over friends, because real friends are family — Drake
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
One Of My Closest Friends Quotes
I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them. — Matthew Perry
Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends. — Robby Krieger
One of my closest friends is a trans man who is incredible. And a lot of my clients are trans women. — Jonathan Van Ness
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
I learned a hell of a lot from my co-star, Kurt Russell. He's one of my closest friends and was one of my best teachers. He was the pro. He approached it like a baseball player. Acting is a contact sport to him. — Tim Matheson
I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs. — Donnie Fritts
I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace. — Ana Gasteyer
I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it. — Queen Latifah
Except perhaps to our God, we all have a facade, even to our closest friends; some of us even to ourselves. . . . . It may not be good that we have it, but I don't believe the state or anyone else has a right to pierce that facade without the individual's consent. — Melvin Belli
Your strongest muscle
Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is? — Robert Macneil
America has lost the moral high ground with the rest of the world, and we have fewer allies as a result. President Bush and his administration have undermined the war on terror by using tactics outlawed by international treaty and condemned by even our closest friends. — John Olver
Nothing is stable in the realm of power, and even closest of friends can be transformed into the worst of enemies. — Robert Greene
Your Closest Friends Quotes
Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . . — Minnie Maddern Fiske
For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?" I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be. — Pico Iyer
Be with those who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.
One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. If they seem okay, then you're the one. — Ann Landers
To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true. — Lady Gaga
There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with. — Austin Kleon
Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.
Obviously, the opinions that are most accurate are the ones that are closest to you - your crew, your friends, your family. Those people know who you are, and that's accurate. — Joey Logano
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart. — Narendra Modi
A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest. — Norman MacCaig
My Closest Friends Quotes
I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire. — Steven Tyler
It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work. — Amartya Sen
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. — Philip Roth
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while. — Clint Eastwood
I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors. — Denzel Washington
Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it — Mary Martin
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. — Major Taylor
I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood. — Tyra Banks
My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people. — Jennie Finch
The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather. — Margaret Mead
My Closest Friend Quotes
My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence. — Warsan Shire
You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me. — Dominic Cooper
Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others. — Namie Amuro
Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with. — Tom Felton
When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy. ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends. — Anne LaBastille
As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me. — John Chaney
All my closest friends are the ones I made while in college or who knew me growing up. They keep me grounded, and I adore that about them. — Alexander Wang
Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime. — William Eggleston
And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business. — Rene Auberjonois
Color is very important in my work. That comes from style. My mother was a fashion model and an interior decorator, so that was me imitating her. My closest friend's mother was the same way, and her taste rubbed off on me, too. It's a domino effect of taste permeating through people. — Tina Barney
Close Friends Quotes
Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. — Vincent Van Gogh
What are friends ? Friends are people that you think are your friends
But they really your enemies, with secret indentities
And disguises, to hide they true colors
So just when you think you close enough to be brothers
They wanna come back and cut your throat when you ain't lookin'. — Sayings
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. — Barbara Bush
Parabatai" said Jace. "It means a pair of warriors who fight together - who are closer than brothers. Alec is more than justmy best friend. — Cassandra Clare
You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends. — Robert Anton Wilson
It is true that some people have some misgivings about China-U.K. cooperation. What I want to stress is that in today's world, no country can afford to pursue development with its door closed. One should open the door, warmly welcome friends, and be hospitable to them. — Xi Jinping
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. — Christian Nevell Bovee
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. — Ethel Waters
Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us. — Teresa of Avila
Intimate Friends Quotes
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life. — Paul Tillich
one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family? — Marie Antoinette
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself. — Robert Schumann
Best Friend Quotes
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. — Al Capone
If I could take your troubles
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend that is always there. — Kahlil Gibran
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. — Henry Ford
Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend. — Harry S. Truman
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. — Lois Wyse
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. — Abraham Lincoln
There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend. — Socrates
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts
That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses. — Fela Kuti
Very Good Friends Quotes
We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend. — Marco Rubio
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a very good letter.'Then Frog and Toad went out onto the front porch to wait for the mail. They sat there, feeling happy together. — Arnold Lobel
If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful. — Johnny Ramone
I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for him. It was fun to be arrogant like he was and have the goods to back it up. He was a very noble character. Although, let's not forget, he did kill a lot of people. — Val Kilmer
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important. — David Rockefeller
William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still. — Glenn Ford
If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends. — Lee Hazlewood
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian. — Danila Kozlovsky
When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good. — Helen Keller
My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? — Plato
Oldest Friends Quotes
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
In swimming, everyone calls me grandma, because I'm the oldest there. Then with my friends, I'm the youngest and I'm the baby. It's definitely bizarre. — Amanda Beard
He knew. I could see it in his face. Look, if someone gets infected you've got between ten and twenty seconds to kill them. It might be your brother or your sister or your oldest friend. It makes no difference. And just so you know where you stand - if it happens to you, I'll do it in a heartbeat. — Selena
You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends. — John Irving
I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends. — Bob Saget
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York! — Sam Trammell
Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from. — Beau Bridges
Bjork is one of my oldest friends so we share the friendship and common roots. That is what we build on when we work together. — Sjon
Closest Person Quotes
The guy you see on the screen isn’t really me. I’m Duke Morrison, and I never was and never will be a film personality like JOHN WAYNE . I know him well. I’m one of his closest students. I have to be. I made a living out of him. — John Wayne
It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist. — Eugene Delacroix
Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just got to remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you. — Michael Douglas
In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people. — Arthur W. Pink
Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child. — Layne Staley
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. — George Carlin
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. — Jonathan Coe
The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well. — Dwayne Hickman
I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health. — Charles Barron
There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best. — Petra Nemcova
Dearest Friend Quotes
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see each other. The more we are united to Him by love, the nearer we are to those who belong to Him. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. — Alphonsus Liguori
In 1992, one of my dearest friends, Anita Borg, came to me with an idea: a conference featuring women Computer Scientists. The conference would celebrate their contributions to the field and to the world. — Telle Whitney
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith. — Abraham Kuyper
When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship. — Robin McKinley
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. — Alban Berg
No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me. — Mahatma Gandhi
The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. — Agnes De Mille
Go home and say to yourself, ‘I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me! — Elizabeth Prentiss
Real Friends Quotes
You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. — Bob Marley
Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family! — T. D. Jakes
The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship. — Joseph Addison
The real work is in the Heart:
Wake up your Heart! Because when the heart is completely awake,
Then it needs no Friend. — Rabia Basri
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends. — Helen Steiner Rice
The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur
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