I mean, you know—like, a cute beast. A little beast that tears shit up and breaks the earth and sucks the life out of people.

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she’s a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever...

Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.

What do we do know?(Peeta)I guess we try to forget…(Katniss)I don’t want to forget.(Peeta)

Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.

Satisfaction is not the achievement of what we want, but the awareness of what we have.

Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was...

If it’s painful for you to criticize your friends, you’re safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

Don’t compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

What is a man but another man’s memory

I did enjoy Nashville a lot of the time, because I made really good friends who were really good songwriters, and they would be a joy to hang out with.

Women and cars are alike. Once they start giving you problems, get rid of them.

It’s disappointing enough to know that the people we love will sometimes lie, but it is almost worse when we remember that strangers do this too, and this is why it is best not to...

I can count my friends on one hand.

Books are just old friends waiting to be discovered.

The world is full of ‘friends’ of suicide victims thinking ‘if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something.

Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of...

I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.

True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others.

As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you’re with.

Keep it calm and watch the company you keep. It’s either a red card or a green card you are holding. One guides you to go on, and the other makes you give up on...

Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?

Only people who’re positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you’re as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply.

I’m a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

Friends, like fingers, are only good if you can count on them, as well as point them in the right direction.

It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.

When friendship matures into love, the ship makes the friends stable in the tempests and storms of love

It was pretty cool to have someone around here who didn’t like the same things as everybody else.

It’s definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it’s also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don’t know already, you will...

Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.

As we reached the wooded hill that led to the pipe, Cheater said, “Uh-oh.””What’s wrong?” I asked.”Is anyone here thinking about kicking the crap out of me?” he asked.”Not me,” I said.”Me either,” Lucky said.”Maybe...

Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I’m thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.” “True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed,” said Mrs. Allan, “and we should have a very high ideal of it...

Standing as a witness in all things means all things – big things, little things, in all conversations, in jokes, in games played and books read and music listened to, in causes supported, in service...

In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees…Strangers are like friends

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq...

Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren’t as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it’s not what it’s cracked...

He understood it when other kids were mean to him. It didn’t bother him. He simply hated them. As long as he hated them, it didn’t matter what they thought of him.

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it...

Having red hair is never good when you’re a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn’t have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make...

My friends are my enimies, my magi, my gods, my life…

There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.

But I know I didn’t love school for school’s sake. I had never really been what people call an ‘academic’ person, nor did I see myself becoming one. Instead, I took pleasure in the fact...

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won’t have much strength and, eventually, we won’t have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we...

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

Yeah, but not to hurt. To help.