Dec. 28, 2024, 11:45 p.m.
For fans of television, few shows have left as lasting an imprint on pop culture as "Friends." Premiering in 1994, this iconic sitcom quickly became a beloved cornerstone of TV comedy, capturing the hearts of audiences worldwide with its witty dialogue, endearing characters, and relatable storylines. Over ten seasons, Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe delivered countless memorable lines, with each quote drawing laughter, nostalgia, or a mix of emotions. Whether you're revisiting the series or encountering it for the first time, we've curated a collection of 147 unforgettable quotes that encapsulate the humor and charm that make "Friends" timeless. Join us as we journey through some of the series' most delightful and memorable moments, one quote at a time.
1. “Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend” - Albert Camus
2. “Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.” - George Bernard Shaw
3. “I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.” - J.K. Rowling
4. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” - Ernest Hemingway
5. “Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.” - Elbert Hubbard
6. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” - J.K. Rowling
7. “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?” - Abraham Lincoln
8. “From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,There's nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends.” - Hilaire Belloc - Verses 10 "Dedicatory Ode"
9. “There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.” - Jim Henson
10. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
12. “I told Mama and Savannah about Ruben's proposal. That got us to talking about marriage and we laughed and cried some, and missed Papa, and it felt good to belong to each other. I don't feel as lonely today as I have in months. At least I know there are other women around me. ” - Nancy E. Turner
13. “Emtehan kon ke basi jame moradat bedahand Gkharabi cho mara lotfe to abad konad” - Hafez
14. “True friends are always together in spirit.” - L.M. Montgomery
15. “If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.” - S.E. Hinton
16. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” - Stephen King
17. “My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple trees.” - Anna Sewell
18. “God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.” - Ray Bradbury
19. “For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.” - Aeschylus
20. “I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.” - Laurie Halse Anderson
21. “In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances and never make friends. An acquaintance shows you only the best of himself, he's considerate and polite, he conceals his defects behind a mask of social convention; but we grow so intimate with him that he throws the mask aside, get to know him so well that he doesn't trouble any longer to pretend; then you'll discover a being of such meanness, of such trivial nature, of such weakness, of such corruption, that you'd be aghast if you didn't realize that that was his nature and it was just as stupid to condemn him as to condemn the wolf because he ravens or the cobra because he strikes.” - W. Somerset Maugham
22. “No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.” - Alfred Lord Tennyson
23. “You know a real friend?Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.” - William S. Burroughs
24. “We did musical chairs to sit with our partner. Glasses were refilled and heads bent in pairs. Looking over the table, I was suffused with affection for my friends. If you could bottle this warm feeling and turn it into words, I thought, that would be the perfect toast.” - Kerry Reichs
25. “My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)” - Thomas Carlyle
26. “Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.” - Robert Schumann
27. “my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.” - Nick Hornby
28. “Fai: *punches Kurogane* That was payback, Kuro-sama!Kurogane: *grins* You're gonna get punched out, you creep!” - Clamp
29. “Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.” - Tamora Pierce
30. “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” - Wm. Paul Young
31. “If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.” - Steve Maraboli
32. “And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—”“I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.”“Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.”“For a while. Minus the singing.” - Nora Roberts
33. “Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.” - Sarah Dessen
34. “Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. “Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more. ” - Graham McNamee
36. “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.” - Colette
37. “Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.Discerning the two is a life's work.” - David Petersen
38. “Friends may come and go but enemies accumulate.” - Jayne Ann Krentz
39. “Remember to say "I love you" to family and friends not just your significant other.” - Vianka Van Bokkem
40. “I heard that when white folks go fishin they do somethin called 'catch and release.'Catch and release? I nodded solemnly, suddenly nervous and curious at the same time.'That really bothers me', Denver went on. 'I just can't figure it out. 'Cause when colored folks go fishin, we really proud of what we catch, and we take it and show it off to everybody that'll look. Then we eat what we catch...in other words, we use it to SUSTAIN us. So it really bothers me that white folks would go to all the trouble to catch a fish, when when they done caught it, just throw it back in the water.'He paused again, and the silence between us stretched a full minute. Then: 'Did you hear what I said?'I nodded, afraid to speak, afraid to offend.Denver looked away, searching the blue autumn sky, then locked onto me again with that drill-bit start. 'So, Mr. Ron, it occurred to me: If you is fishin for a friend you just gon' catch and release, then I ain't got no desire to be your friend.'I returned Denver's gaze with what I hoped was a receptive expression and hung on.Suddenly his eyes gentled and he spoke more softly than before: 'But if you is lookin for a REAL friend, then I'll be one. Forever.” - Ron Hall
41. “For the first time, it struck me that when Denver said he'd be my friend for life, he meant it-for better or for worse. The hell of it was, Mr. Ballantine never wanted a friend, especially a black one. But once Denver committed, he stuck. It reminded me of what Jesus told His disciples 'Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” - Ron Hall
42. “A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.” - Douglas Adams
43. “Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
44. “How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?” - Rabih Alameddine
45. “Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” - Steve Maraboli
46. “Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.” - Christopher Hitchens
47. “Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors—the living—could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in advance. And that presented another difficulty. Many brave and now dead soldiers had nonetheless been conscripts. The known martyrs—those who actually, voluntarily sought death and rejoiced in the fact—had been the kamikaze pilots, immolating themselves to propitiate a 'divine' emperor who looked (as Orwell once phrased it) like a monkey on a stick. Their Christian predecessors had endured torture and death (as well as inflicted it) in order to set up a theocracy. Their modern equivalents would be the suicide murderers, who mostly have the same aim in mind. About people who set out to lose their lives, then, there seems to hang an air of fanaticism: a gigantic sense of self-importance unattractively fused with a masochistic tendency to self-abnegation. Not wholesome.The better and more realistic test would therefore seem to be: In what cause, or on what principle, would you risk your life?” - Christopher Hitchens
48. “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 up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.” - Marilyn Monroe
49. “Think where man's glory most begins and endsAnd say my glory was I had such friends.” - William Butler Yeats
50. “Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.” - Tamora Pierce
51. “Do not be deceived: bad company corrupts good morals.” - Anonymous
52. “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 scared her friends.” - Tamora Pierce
53. “I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you.""Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.” - Claudia Gray
54. “There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.” - Julia Quinn
55. “Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?” - Jenny Han
56. “There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.” - J.D. Robb
57. “it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.” - Lemony Snicket
58. “A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.” - Lauren Oliver
59. “Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them." -Anne Shirley” - L.M. Montgomery
60. “I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.” - Roman Payne
61. “But Lunch Isn't That Bad, ReallyOnce I get used tohaving to eat with two peopleinstead of one.Two people who have known each otherfor such a long timethat they practically speak in code.Two people who are always saying,"Remember the time when this happened?"and "Remember the time when that happened?"(Which, of course,I never do,because I wasn't there.)Well, okay,it is that bad.It sucks, even.” - Sonya Sones
62. “Must you go? I was rather hoping you'd stay and be a ministering angel, but if you must go, you must.""I'll stay," Will said a bit crossly, and threw himself down in the armchair Tessa had just vacated. "I can minister angelically.""None too convincingly. And you're not as pretty to look at as Tessa is," Jem said, closing his eyes as he leaned back against the pillow."How rude. Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun."Jem still had his eyes closed. "If they mean it gives you a headache, they aren't wrong.” - Cassandra Clare
63. “Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy” - Bob Marley
64. “But it's like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there's still no guarantee that anybody's gonna be there for you to pick you up when you get there.” - Nancy Oliver
65. “I survive at the edge of friends circles.” - Holly Black
66. “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.” - Simone de Beauvoir
67. “Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown.” - Judith Orloff
68. “In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.” - Thomas Harris
69. “The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.” - Nicole Richie
70. “Hey, Meg," she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I'm applying for grad school."Meghann screamed into the phone. "Oh, my God! I'm so proud of you. I'm hanging up now; I have to draft a letter that makes my best friend sound like da Vinci in a bra and panties.” - Kristin Hannah
71. “It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.” - Mary Shelley
72. “Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” - A.A. Milne
73. “Gratitude means to recognize the good in your life, be thankful for whatever you have, some people may not even have one of those things you consider precious to you (love, family, friends etc). Each day give thanks for the gift of life.You are blessed” - Pablo
74. “If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.” - L.M. Montgomery
75. “Govinda was standing in front of him, dressed in the yellow robe of an ascetic. Sad was how Govinda looked like, sadly he asked: Why have you forsaken me? At this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his arms around him, and as he was pulling him close to his chest and kissed him, it was not Govinda any more, but a woman, and a full breast popped out of the woman's dress, at which Siddhartha lay and drank, sweetly and strongly tasted the milk from this breast.” - Hermann Hesse
76. “And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me” - Ray Lamontagne
77. “In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.” - Dean Koontz
78. “Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.” - Catherynne M. Valente
79. “She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.” - Ann Brashares
80. “I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.” - William Hazlitt
81. “It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.” - Violet Haberdasher
82. “...that's what friends did. Let each other off the hook when they didn't want to talk.” - Lauren Dane
83. “Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.” - Norman Maclean
84. “The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.” - Thomas Bernhard
85. “See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend.” - Sarah Ockler
86. “One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.” - Trenton Lee Stewart
87. “True friendship never questions what it costs you.” - Stephen Richards
88. “When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.” - Stephen Richards
89. “The Bible talks primarily of two kinds of angels- Cherubim and Seraphim. But there is a third kind of angel. If you ever find yourself troubled, suffering or in despair, God may send you this third type of angel. These angels are called...'friends.” - José N. Harris
90. “You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!” - Harry S. Truman
91. “To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.” - Sidney Sheldon
92. “And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.” - Naomi Novik
93. “Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.” - Dave Brenner
94. “Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” - Francesco Guicciardini
95. “How can I ever make you understand Cassie and me? I would have to take you there, walk you down every path of our secret shared geography. The truism says it’s against all odds for a straight man and woman to be real friends, platonic friends; we rolled thirteen, threw down five aces and ran away giggling. She was the summertime cousin out of storybooks, the one you taught to swim at some midge-humming lake and pestered with tadpoles down her swimsuit, with whom you practiced first kisses on a heather hillside and laughed about it years later over a clandestine joint in your granny’s cluttered attic. She painted my fingernails gold and dared me to leave them that way for work…We climbed out her window and down the fire escape and lay on the roof of the extension below, drinking improvised cocktails and singing Tom Waits and watching the stars spin dizzily around us.No.” - Tana French
96. “An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.” - E.A. Bucchianeri
97. “Friendship is so important. The goal of a good friendship should be for life! To keep it for life! If you find a friendship, and it gives you a joy inside, a peace, and a freedom; keep that friendship for life. Through it all, you stay together. So many friendships are toxic, but the good ones are really good! I always tell my son this, I always say, a friend is for life!” - C. JoyBell C.
98. “My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.” - Steven Herrick
99. “Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.” - Habeeb Akande
100. “With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.” - Leo Tolstoy
101. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” - G. Randolf
102. “Sometimes I guess it just feels better to know that you have someone to help you when you can’t even help yourself. ~ Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)” - Rebecca Gober
103. “I look around the room at some of the familiar faces and some of those who are still strangers to me. Somewhere deep within, I find the strength. The strength I was born from, that I never knew I possessed. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE” - Courtney Nuckels
104. “I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!” - Elizabeth Gaskell
105. “Life’s gonna kick you in the butt; that’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn’t in life? (Kira, The Mishmorat)” - Richelle E. Goodrich
106. “Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.” - Idries Shah
107. “How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?” - Barbara Samuel
108. “Draugus, kurių troškau, aš nuramdžiau grodamas tau ir su tavimi tą vakarą, tai tavo veide, akyse aš juos mačiau, visus savo mylimus bičiulius, kai išėjai, išėjo ir jie su tavimi.” - Alessandro Baricco
109. “being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.” - John Green
110. “My house feels like home when you're there.” - Susan Richards Shreve
111. “A true friend finds a way to celebrate—even in the worst moments of life—and forces it upon you.” - Rionna Morgan
112. “If you are looking for a friend that will never change, go to the shelves, you'll find it there. It will never change and will stay the same today and forever.” - Wency June Z. Libot
113. “I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.” - Veronica Roth
114. “I feel like our whole friendship was a lie. She's probably the only person I've ever really opened up to, and the whole time she was hiding stuff from me. I just don't feel like I can trust somebody like that.” - Brendan Halpin
115. “With This Time Lost, Comes Time To Spend.To Spend On Love, Friends, Family, And Most Of All.. Time To Spend On Life.” - Jesse Holdeman
116. “It's always thoughts of family that drive me crazy, and it's always my friends who bring me back.Agents of Light and Darkness p.218” - Simon R. Green
117. “And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.” - Caitlin Moran
118. “Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.” - John Green
119. “I'm not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the cafeteria.But actually trusting someone when they have nothing to gain from me just doesn't make sense.All friendships are negotiations of power.” - Holly Black
120. “You don't tell anyone things like that about your friends, even when you're mad at them.” - Glenda Millard
121. “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 is on your own terms.” - Rachel Bertsche
122. “Ya sabes cómo suceden las cosas -prosiguió-. Va una por la vida de una manera insípida, aburrida, y entonces, de pronto, un rostro se destaca de la muchedumbre de conocidos, un rostro al que estás segura de reconocer, como si fuera el rostro de un amigo aunque nunca lo hayas visto. Casi parece como si te encontraras de pronto con alguien a quien anduviste buscando mucho tiempo, y a quien recuperas con gran alegría. Bueno, pues los amigos son así... Son muy pocos, sin duda, aunque después de todo son esos pocos los que de verdad importan. A los amigos así no los pierdes, por mucho que estén ausentes, o incluso... muertos.” - A.E.W. Mason
123. “I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.” - Criss Jami
124. “Sometimes when I see people from high school I feel trapped in a persona I maintained then,' she says. 'Ten years have gone by, a dive changed a tremendous amount - both emotionally and in circumstance. So while my oldest relationships are incredibly dear, and it's true that they know me intimately, it can be freeing to have relationships built on exactly who you are at this moment.” - Rachel Bertsche
125. “Of course, he didn't know anything about these Indonesians, or why they would have been there at this moment to save his life, but the fact that they had guns and weren't firing them at him implied that for the moment, at least, they were his dearest friends.” - Orson Scott Card
126. “When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.” - Shannon L. Alder
127. “True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.” - Randa Abdel-Fattah
128. “Sometimes you meet a person and you just click--you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.” - Alexandra Ardonetto
129. “You take care of family first, friends second, and neighbors when you can.” - Janice Hardy
130. “We think of those nights spent with one or more friends, nights when we merged with the shadows and could see the world with eyes that were not our own.” - Whipplesnaith
131. “It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon in superior confidences with a friend before the two-barred electric heater.” - Muriel Spark
132. “I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.” - Tammy-Louise Wilkins
133. “This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds. ...your spirits don't rise until you get way down. Maybe it's because this - the mud, the bottom - is where it all rises from. ...when someone enters that valley with you, that mud, it somehow saves you again.” - Anne Lamottott
134. “I'm sarcastic and facetious. It's hard to find those people on the first encounter. I can be nice, but I don't want nice friends. I want funny, gregarious, sarcastic, and smart friends. It's so nice to hear you're not alone.” - Bertsche
135. “Oh we'll know each other for forever' Bix said. 'The days of losing touch are almost gone.' 'What does that mean? ' Drew asks.'We're going to meet again in a different place,' Bix said. 'Everyone we've lost, we'll find. Or they'll find us.” - Jennifer Egan
136. “It seems the older we get, the tighter our inner circle becomes. When life has you down, some of those you thought had your back run, others...sometimes strangers surprise you and fill that empty space up. Oh, but life has a great balancing act and when that axle turns and you are right side up again...you will definitely not be looking for any long, lost "friends" because your inner circle is battle-tested to win!” - Sanjo Jendayi
137. “A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.” - Doris Wild Helmering
138. “Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works” - danielle steel
139. “Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people” - Evelyn Waugh
140. “Sometimes you see someone doing something that does not fit at all with your idea of that person. You realise that, a lot of the time, you don't really know people, even one of your best friends.Instead, you get to know a little bit about that person - the little things they want to reveal, or inadvertently reveal - and then you make up a whole lot of rubbish that's your idea of the person.” - Steph Bowe
141. “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 try to attack my people at their merrymaking?" asked the king. "We did not attack them," answered Thorin, "we came to beg because we were starving." "Where are your friends now, and what are they doing?" "I don't know, but I expect that they're all starving in the forest." "What were you doing in the forest?" "Looking for food and drink, because we were starving." "And what brought you into the forest at all?" asked the king angrily. At that Thorin shut his mouth and would not say another word.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
142. “I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the best student there. Such was not the case at Eli. Here, I was surrounded by geniuses. I’d figured out early in my college career that there were people like Jenny and Brandon and Lydia and Josh—truly brilliant, truly luminous, whose names would appear in history books that my children and grandchildren would read, and there were people like George and Odile—who through beauty and charm and personality would make the cult of celebrity their own. And then there were people like me. People who, through the arbitrary wisdom of the admissions office, might share space with the big shots for four years, might be their friends, their confidantes, their associates, their lovers—but would live a life well below the global radar. I knew it, and over the years, I’d come to accept it.And I understood that it didn’t make them any better than me.” - Diana Peterfreund
143. “True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk.” - Lauren Bjorkman
144. “Choosing friends based on how much money they have is like betting on a horse because you like its saddle.” - Stephen Smoke
145. “I hear he liked flowers pretty well.""Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."--"Out, Brief Candle” - Kurt Vonnegut
146. “If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them.” - Shannon L. Alder
147. “By surrounding yourself with people who are positive, caring, intelligent, loving, and open-minded, you create a personal environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. By surrounding yourself with the opposite, you create a personal environment that is conducive to the opposite. Choose accordingly.” - Steve Maraboli