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“. . . My best friend [as a young girl] made this mole on my face, because she would get in a fight with me and scratch me -- by the third time the scab came off the [mole] was there . . .”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hallmark Channel's This Morning with Naomi Judd (January 29, 2006)
“She's so many women, He can't find the one who was his friend. So he's hanging on to half her heart. He can't have the restless part, So he tells her to hasten down the wind.”
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I give thanks to God for the presence and help of cardinal Ratzinger, who is a trusted friend.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autobiography of John Paul II, firstly presented on May 2004 in Rome.
“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.”
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146.
“I want to be your lover But your friend is all I've stayed. I'm only halfway to paradise, So near, yet so far away.”
Carole King (born 1942) first seen 1961 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Halfway to Paradise (1961), co-written with Gerry Goffin, first recorded by Tony Orlando, later by Billy Fury
“You just call out my name And you know wherever I am I'll come running to see you again. Winter, spring, summer, or fall All you have to do is call And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got a friend.”
Carole King (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now ain't it good to know That you've got a friend When People can be so cold. They'll hurt you, kiss and desert you. And take your soul if you let them. Oh, but don't you let them.”
Carole King (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think it’s a total nightmare and disaster, and I’m ashamed that I went against my own instincts in supporting [the Iraq War]. It’s something I’ll never do again. Never. I got convinced by a friend of mine who’s smarter than I am, and I shouldn’t have done that. No. I want things to work out, but I’m enraged by it, actually.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bubba: No, I love being a white man. It kicks ass, my friend. I love it.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bubba: Fine people of Canada, please understand that Tucker is a very good friend of mine, but I in no way, shape, or form share his views of how he feels about people from Canada. I love Canada. They're great people up there. Tucker feels that you guys are a bunch of assholes.”
Tucker Carlson (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.”
Garry Kasparov (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Could my right hon. Friend explain why the increase in oil prices is deflationary but the increase in all other international prices has apparently been inflationary?”
Enoch Powell (1912–1998) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber in the House of Commons (6 February 1974)
“One of the things that motivated my old friend Andrew Breitbart was his righteous indignation at being called a racist. That's a running theme in his book, "Righteous Indignation".”
Jonah Goldberg (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the days of madness, my brother, my sister, When you're dragged toward the Hell-mouth, You will beg for the end, but there ain't gonna be one, friend, For the grave will spew you out! It will spew you out!”
Nick Cave (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's no suggestion that Lord Mandelson has done anything unlawful. But I would claim the friend's privilege to tell Peter that he has been, at best naive and foolish, at worst greedy and duplicitous. Whatever is true as far as politics and public office are concerned, for Peter Mandelson, this is the end.”
Trevor Phillips (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is that glorious Epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the Historian, in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men: "Good Americans when they die go to Paris.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) first seen 1859 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Holmes attributed the remark "Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris" to "one of the wittiest of men". Later writers have attributed the saying to friend and fellow Saturday Club member Thomas Gold Appleton. In 1859…
Also quoted by: Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Whenever a friend refers a doctor they say, "Make sure you tell him that you know me." Why? What's the difference? He's a doctor. "Oh, you know Bob? Oh, okay. I'll give you the real medicine. Everybody else I'm giving Tic Tacs.”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had established an enviable scheme of life. I refused to dance attendance in the ante-chambers of the great. If anyone wanted something from me he had to ask. I was much run after, but if the person was not of rank, or a friend, I worked [painted] for nobody.”
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) first seen 1789 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, c. 1789; from: Francisco Zapater y Gomez : Goya; Noticias biograficas, Zaragoza, 1868, La Perse Verencia; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publis…
“Goya in gratitude to his friend Arrieta for the skill and great care with which he saved his [Goya's] life in his acute and dangerous illness, suffered at the end of 1819, at the age of seventy-tree years. He painted this in 1820.”
Francisco Goya (1746–1828) first seen 1820 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: inscription by Goya, 1820
“I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. "Don't complain about growing old — many, many people do not have that privilege.”
Earl Warren (1891–1974) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement on celebrating his 83rd birthday (March 1974), as quoted in The Reader's Digest (1980) Vol. 116, p. 43
“If you are my friend, stand up before me and scatter the grace that's in your eyes.”
Sappho (651–570 BC) said by 570 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fr. 138 Voigt (tr. Willis Barnstone, 1965)
“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man — who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?”
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lower Depths (1902)
“O fathering friend and scientist of good, Who in solitude, one bygone summer’s day, And in the throes of bodily anguish, passed away From dream and conflict and research-lit lands Of ethnological learning, — even as you stood Selfless and ardent, resolute and gay, So in this hour, in strange survival stands Your ghost, whom I am powerless to repay.”
Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Above our life we love a steadfast friend.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people,… he turned to his friend and said, "Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.”
Angelina Jolie (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One must not fear truth, because it is a friend of man and of his freedom”
Pope Benedict XVI (1927–2022) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In General Audience, General Audience 30 September 2009 (30 September 2009)
“It didn’t matter that Nicole had made all the moves; sleeping with a friend’s granddaughter had to be pretty close to the top of all-time Bad Things.”
Peter F. Hamilton (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Smoking marijuana is more fun than drinking beer, But a friend of ours was captured and they gave him thirty years Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.”
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Ralph Waldo Emerson, as quoted in "Humanity, said Edgar Allan Poe, is divided into Men, Women, and Margaret Fuller" Joseph Jay Deiss in American Heritage magazine, Vol. 23, Issue 5 (August 1972)
“Thou art greatly wise, my friend, and ever respected by me, yet I find not in your theory or your scope, room enough for the lyric inspirations, or the mysterious whispers of life. To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend, Freedom is but a means to gain an end. Freedom should build the temple, but the shrine Be consecrate to thought still more divine. The human bliss which angel hopes foresaw Is liberty to comprehend the law. Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame, Comprising means and end in Truth's great name.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A many-colored light flows from our sun; Art, 'neath its beams a motley thread has spun; The prison modifies the perfect day; But thou hast known such mediums to shun, And cast once more on life a pure white ray. Absorbed in the creations of thy mind, Forgetting daily self, my truest friend I find.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. 'You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight. (The Mummery Book).”
Adi Da (1939–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, I assure you—I’m only a little outlaw. Don’t fear me, friend. I never broke any big laws. I just forget and do what I want sometimes, and discover it wasn’t what someone else wanted me to do.”
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I look for in a friend is someone who's different from me. The more different the person is, the more I'll learn from him. The more he'll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations.”
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The true Negro does not want integration ... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race ... It will destroy our race eventually ... In one northern city, a pastor friend of mine tells me that a couple of opposite race live next door to his church as man and wife ... It boils down to whether we are going to take God's Word as final.”
Jerry Falwell (1933–2007) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The Nation's Best Bible College Gets Low Grades on Racial Diversity" The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, vol. 31 (2001), pp.43-45
“‘Tis time, my friend, ‘tis time! For rest the heart is aching; Days follow days in flight, and every day is taking Fragments of being, while together you and I Make plans to live. Look, all is dust, and we shall die.”
Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tis Time, My Friend, l. 1-5 (1834).
“The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.”
P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) said by 1891 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Back in 2000 a Republican friend warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true!”
James Carville (born 1944) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Account of speech to a group, in Had enough?: A handbook for fighting back (2003), p. 2
“Steam is the friend of man. Steam engines are very human. Their very weaknesses are understandable. Steam engines do not flash back and blow your face in. They do not short-circuit and rive your heart with imponderable electric force. They have arms and legs and warm hearts and veins full of warm vapour. Give us steam every time. You know where you are with steam.”
William McFee (1881–1966) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Six-hour Shift : The Log of a Transport Engineer" in The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. CXIX, No. 4 (April 1917), p. 449
“What advantage does my noble Friend think could be derived by humanity, civilization or commerce from leaving the vast tracts of territory which he has described to be simply wandered over by naked savages or to be the hunting ground of slavers?”
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Lords (6 July 1888), quoted in Michael Bentley, Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain (2001), p. 231
“Look, my friend. I don't speak the language here, I've got no money, the food stinks, there's no rice, no beans. I'd rather be arrested in Brazil than stay in this dump of a country.”
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (born 1945) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1975. Cited in Emir Sader and ‎Ken Silverstein, Without Fear of Being Happy (1991) p. 41
“You fail to understand, my friend. We do not control time. If anything, it controls us. We simply measure it.”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s never ‘should’ with engineers, my old friend, but ‘how’? Have you not learned that much?”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never had much of a vocabulary. In fact, my friend Bob Schneider would still be alive today if I'd known the difference between "antidote" and "anecdote". He got bitten by a copperhead, and I'm telling him funny stories out of Reader's Digest. His head started to swell, I said "This ain't working". He goes, "READ FASTER!!”
Ron White (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source