Latest Quotes

“Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.”

— Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?”

— Eugene Kennedy, Eugene Kennedy

“Some people go to priests, others to poetry, I to my friends.”

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Works Of Virginia Woolf

“Friends are the family you choose.”

— Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life (Book #1 / Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy)

“We don't have a common market in the Americas. But in all sorts of ways, the United States constrains itself in order to bind everyone under a common set of norms and rules that makes everybody more prosperous.”

— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron in Joint Press Conference

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”

— Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ali Quotes •

“I’m not coming here to fix any votes. I’m not casting a vote myself. I’m offering my opinion. And in democracies, everybody should want more information, not less. And you shouldn’t be afraid to hear an argument being made… If, right now, I’ve got access to a massive market where I sell 44 percent o…”

— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron in Joint Press Conference

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”

— Woodrow Wilson, Americanism

“I think there's a British poet who once said, 'No man is an island' even an island as beautiful as this. We're stronger together. And if we continue to tackle our challenges together, then future generations will look back on ours, just as we look back on the previous generation of English and Ameri…”

— Barack Obama, Remarks by the President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron in Joint Press Conference

“Being a best friend demands the same level of unwavering trust and commitment as being in a relationship. It needs a mutual understanding of both parties’ shortcomings, a level of maturity to look past these imperfections, and see the beautiful person that they first met as a stranger but later chos…”

— Anonymous, To The Best Friend I Never Thought I’d Have

“We’re best friends because you make feel less alone in this psycho, flaky world. It’s amazing how often you can feel disconnected from people. It’s amazing how many people can betray you, or fail to understand the words that are coming out of your mouth. When I see you, it’s a burst of reassurance t…”

— Ryan O'Connell, This Is Why You’re My Best Friend

“There’s something about the frantic, desperate friendships we form when we’re young that can simply never be reconstructed.”

— Heidi Priebe, Why We’ll Always Be Closest To The People Who Knew Us When We Were Young And Reckless

“If you’re fortunate enough, you will find a person who sees this world in the exact same way that you do.”

— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend

“Life is so messy and difficult. The best you can really hope for is that you have a friend who anchors you and makes you feel safe. It helps if this friend has really great hair too.”

— Ryan O'Connell, You Can’t Get Through Your 20s Without A Best Friend

“Falling in love for us meant falling into talk. We talked about our memories, broken bones, broken hearts and one broken marriage. We talked about our mothers, one Jewish and one Italian, constantly cooking and feeding. We talked about our fathers, neither of whom cooked or fed. We talked about frie…”

— Molly Pascal, How the ‘Dining Dead’ Got Talking Again

“While we are all afraid of making ourselves vulnerable, study after study shows that the majority of people are truly rooting for you. They want to see you; they admire your courage. It’s eye opening information. The very thing we are protecting ourselves from could be the source of our greatest str…”

— Meghan Yule-Rosen, Are You Hiding Yourself in Fear of Being Fully Seen?

“One of the great mistakes of life is to think that talent alone is enough to be great and become a high achiever. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen talented people get cut from the sports team, go bankrupt after a few years in business or just completely get flat out beat by someone with a…”

— Matt Mayberry, Why Talent Alone Will Never Be Enough

“We were never the things that people write songs about or someone says, "That. I want that." We were the laundry piling up on the couch because no one bothered to put it away and dirty footprints on the tile because it was more fun to go out in the rain without shoes. We were cheap wine that led to…”

— Kendra Syrdal, The Big Bad Heartbreak Book

“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.”

— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye

“Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.”

— Chris Bradford, The Way Of The Sword