The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving. “Why did you and your folk three times...

Plan the number of hours each day you’ll spend on your dreams, the kind of people you’ll love to connect with, the amount of capital you’ll want to invest and the sources of help you...

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share...

My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your “youniversity” will be prestigious but unknown!

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

There are people who are simply gifts to everyone they meet.

His [Pitt’s] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend of Mr. Addington; but their respective friends were each other’s enemies. Mr....

You’ll be bereft without me.

We’ll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

Have faith my friends, because love will find you eventually. It found me, and I was wearing camouflage clothing, face paint, and cologne that smelled like the wilderness.

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what’s going to be some very trying times.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it’s OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke...

Hold me like you hold the hand of a little kid who needs you in loneliness, bite my fingers like you bite a giggling kid in front of her friends, and play with me like...

Love does not request, love provides

And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.

Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In...

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

You know that you’re a true friend when somebody says “But what about that wart on the end of his nose?” and your honest response is “What wart?”. You see true friends accept you for...

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting...

…that’s what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn’t want to talk.

Internet makes you think that you have millions of friends, whereas you are your own friend.

I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

Watch over Honoria, will you? See that she doesn’t marry an idiot.

Especially as I was an old friend, or at least I was a person she had known for a long time, which after a certain point is almost the same thing…

It’s shitty I guess. They’re my friends. But… everything I want to talk about I can’t say to them. It feels so separate, like I’ve touched something that’s taken the color out of me.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I’ve been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don’t understand, they still understand.

Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.

True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.

Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the...

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It’s simple and it’s cheap.

Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say NO without feeling guilty, mean, or selfish. Anybody who gets upset and/or expects you to say YES all of the time clearly...

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

For your love I have uprooted all my desires, I am no more demanding…

Friends and People are like clouds and trees that we see hustling past the window of a running train.Trees are like PEOPLE.. all running.. in the opposite direction;Clouds are like our FRIENDS.. like family.. our...

I’ve definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friends, you are as constant as a compass needle. You are unswervingly loyal, and you inspire loyalty....

Just friends it is then” he says not perturbed and starts eating his lunch.

I have so many friends and obligations, and I want to go out and support people. But we eat at home.

The decision to move to the second post-college city (or suburb, or town), however, is usually made independent of friends. No matter if you do it for love, career, family, or school, the second move...

Make sure they put that on your headstone, will you? Right below ‘Here lies Benedict Bartholomew Ford. He had no friends and a really stupid name’.

Here’s to our enduring sisterhood. May it bind us together more tightly that the Lycra in my Spanx underpants.

Good Friends are like STARS in the night, their light is a beacon that guides us on the path of peace, love and contentment.

When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you...

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

I play in a band called ‘Moi non plus’ with some friends.