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“The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence — and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.”
“If you want to move mountains, you just go move mountains. If you don't have a big enough shovel, you get some friends to help you. If you have the enthusiasm to charge ahead, you can do all sorts of things. Some things you can't do. You can't invent a perpetual motion machine. You've got to select your targets. But people can do so much more than they realize.”
Paul MacCready (1925–2007) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paul MacCready Interview, Engineer of the Century, January 12, 1991, Pasadena, California
“The Mao quote is one I picked up from the late Republican strategist Lee Atwater from something I read in the late 1980s, so I hope I don't get my progressive friends mad at me. The use of the phrase 'favorite political philosophers' was intended as irony, but clearly the effort fell flat -- at least with a certain Fox commentator whose sense of irony may be missing.”
Anita Dunn (born 1958) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CNN interview, October 16, 2009.
“We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.”
Samuel Gompers (1850–1924) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Men of Labor! Be Up and Doing" (editorial), American Federationist (May 1906)
“In my skeptical days, people who wanted to appear very spiritual were always telling me to forget my questions, to shove them under the rug and go on in "faith." In fact, some of my friends thought my questions were my own devices to dodge the "real issues." They thought I must be morally decadent to voice such questions. -Appalachian Melody.”
Mark Heard (1951–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What do we call a nation? – People who are of the same origin and who speak the same words and who live and make friends of each other, who have the same customs and songs and entertainment are what we call a nation, and the place where that people lives is called the people's country. Thus the Macedonians also are a nation and the place which is theirs is called Macedonia.”
Georgi Pulevski (1817–1895) first seen 1875 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rečnik od tri jezika: s. makedonski, arbanski i turski [Dictionary of Three languages: S. Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish], U držacnoj štampariji, 1875, p. 48f.
“God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.”
William Mountford (1816–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do we not hear voices, gentle and great, and some of them like the voices of departed friends,— do we not hear them saying to us, "Come up hither?”
William Mountford (1816–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.”
Chelsea Handler (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was never allowed to play with guns when I was a child. While various friends were able to scamper around the woods with their Johnny Sevens, I had to make do with an old twig. And convincing an eight-year-old he was dead simply because I'd pointed a piece of larch his way was not quite as easy as you might imagine.”
Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the poor rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your friends. I just began to wonder if anybody still believed Jesus meant those things he said.”
Shane Claiborne (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have noticed in this economic downturn that more of my friends talk about God…”
John Townsend (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”
Charlie Huston (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The foundational morality of the civilized world is best summarized in the Ten Commandments. Moral relativism and secular humanism are slippery slopes. The terminal moraine at the base of these slopes is a rubble pile consisting of either despotism and pillage, or anarchy and the depths of depravity. I believe that it takes both faith and friends to survive perilous times.”
James Wesley Rawles (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“GG Allin: I do what ever it takes. If somebodys in my way I take him out. You know. They're my enemy. I don't look at them, they're not my friends.”
GG Allin (1956–1993) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: GG Allin on The Jerry Springer Show, May 5. 1993.
“I just want to be not what I am today. I just want to be better than my friends might say. I just want a small part in your passion play.”
William Fitzsimmons (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People keep saying I am shy. Oh, he’s so shy. The media says it all the time. I am not at all shy. I am not reluctant. I am an extrovert. I am like that all the time. You can ask my friends. I am the one who talks the most.”
Rahul Gandhi (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Guys don't know they're pussy whipped until it's too late. Until you do something that lets you know, like when you shush your friends: "Hey, man, remember that time we went to Vegas and…?" "Dude, shut the fuck up about Vegas! The fuck are you doing?! The window's open, man! She's somewhere in the city!”
“Boys, do you hear that musketry and that artillery? It means that our friends are falling by the hundreds at the hands of the enemy, and here we are guarding a damned creek! Let's go and help them. What do you say?”
Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821–1877) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said to his men at Shiloh (Apr. 6–7, 1862). As quoted in May I Quote You, General Forrest? by Randall Bedwell
“That's pure bunk. I adored Fred. We were good friends. Our only problem is that we never aspired to be any kind of a team. We didn't want to be Abbott and Costello. We thought of ourselves as individuals. We didn't intend to be another Frick and Frack. [smiling, after a pause] But it happened anyway, didn't it? And I'll be forever grateful it did.”
Ginger Rogers (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seems like even her old girlfriends Might be talking her down. She's got her name on the grapevine Running up and down The telephone line Talking 'bout Someone said, someone said Something 'bout, something else Someone might have said about her She always figured that they were her friends But maybe they can live without her.”
James Taylor (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should say we think a big element in the process of seeking peace [in the Middle East] is the acceptance of Israel's existence and so we´re going to go around to all our friends in Europe and Asia and elsewhere and say let´s accept Israel´s right to exist - and a way of doing that is to move our embassy to west Jerusalem. As long as the embassy is in Tel Aviv, it sort of says we´re camping out.”
George Shultz (1920–2021) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New York Post", June 21, 2003.
“If another one of my Whole-Foods friends says my wife should have a home birth, I am going to punch all the soy on the planet.”
Patton Oswalt (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, my friends, the time has come To raise the roof and have some fun. Throw away the work to be done. Let the music play on.”
Lionel Richie (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ancients, by their system of colonization, made themselves friends all over the known world; the moderns have sought to make subjects, and therefore have made enemies.”
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With Christ, and like Christ, and not love our friends! Impossible! when He loves them so tenderly. Going into the fuller presence of Him whose very name is "Love" can never make our hearts less loving.”
Arthur Kenney (1776–1855) said by 1855 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am starting to believe you are not intending to count me amongst your friends.”
Pedro Muñoz Seca (1879–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.”
Asahel Nettleton (1783–1844) said by 1844 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 193.
“Skinner: …it should be placed on record that, according to my hon. Friends who worked tirelessly in the Committee to oppose the provisions of the Bill, including this clause, the Liberal spokesman was not there half the time.”
Dennis Skinner (born 1932) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!”
Javad Alizadeh (born 1953) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Humor & Caricature (January 1996), p. 3
“To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.”
Antisthenes (445–365 BC) said by 365 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Glad as we were to leave it behind, I cannot deny that it was with a certain feeling of melancholy that we saw it vanish. We had grown so fond of our beacons, and whenever we met them we greeted them as old friends. Many and great were the services these silent watchers did us on our long and lonely way.”
Roald Amundsen (1872–1928) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On January 21, 1912, upon leaving behind the last navigation beacon at 80° 23' S
“May I never sit on a tribunal where my friends shall not find more favor from me than strangers.”
Themistocles (524–459 BC) said by 459 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Plutarch, in Lives as translated by J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne (1850), p. 225
“People are always talking about how bad the seventies were, but things in the popular culture have gotten much worse even since then. I grew up watching Laverne & Shirley, and Lenny and Squiggy never slept over. Now with shows like Friends or Married... with Children, sex is everywhere. I mean, can you imagine the minds that were raised on those shows?”
Christine O'Donnell (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where had I been that I didn't know about imaginary friends? I could see the point of it. How a lost part of yourself steps out and reminds you who you could be with a little work.”
Sue Monk Kidd (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I think that I cheated my own family and my closest friends by giving to audiences so much of the love I might have kept for them. But that’s the way I was made; I truly don't think I could help it”
Mary Martin (1913–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals, anywhere in the universe. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lot of the biggest entertainers are shy. I’ve always been shy. But once I’m on stage and get hold of an audience, I know I can bring the room together as one. No matter how many thousands of people, I can bring it to where they are all friends. If you have a heartbreak or a sickness, for 90 minutes I can make you forget.”
Cher (born 1946) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On not being as extroverted as people might think in "Cher at 74: 'There are 20-year-old girls who can’t do what I do’" in The Guardian (2020 Dec 14)
“But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying "no" to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commencement address, Scripps College, 2009 — http://www.scrippscollege.edu/about/commencement/gabrielle-giffords.php
“Goodbye friends. Please don't be mad at me. The literacy rate is below 5%. I haven't talked to one person who is literate. I want to make it out alive. The longest war in the history of the United States. Goodbye. I'm saddened with the current currency and job employment. I had a bully at school. Thank you. P.S. --plead the fifth!”
Jared Lee Loughner (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To create a balance of power and pedigree in the house, Hunter sent five bucks off to an ad he'd seen in the back pages of a magazine and received his mail-order doctor-of-divinity degree. He began referring to himself as Dr. Thompson and punctuated remarks with his afterword: "I am, after all, a doctor." Friends picked up on the joke, and he was "the Good Doctor" for the rest of his life.”
William McKeen (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish people would shift that focus on to themselves and their own family and their own friends and just maybe spend a little more time on their home front. And not some distant planet that is me.”
Charlie Sheen (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look, in my personal issues I'm very private. I would like to make clear that all the matters of my family, friends, my love life, is something that is for me, and I also prefer people to invent. It amuses me a lot when I read all the things they invent.”
Luis Miguel (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first painting to appear with an affirmation of simultaneity was mine and had the following title: 'Simultaneous visions', [Boccioni painted in 1911]. It was exhibited in the galerie Bernheim in Paris, and in the same exhibition my Futurist painter friends also appeared with similar experiments in simultaneity.”
Umberto Boccioni (1882–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boccioni's quote on early realized simultaneity in his art; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 458.
“Tolerance is tolerance is tolerance.Period, you assholes. Today’s intolerant, young, liberal California/ New Yorkers are only comfortable within their own shared consensus. Friends must think alike and believe the same things now. They must vote the same and defend the same ideology like zombies. Anyone who disagrees can only be evil, stupid, and wrong.”
Vincent Gallo (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I should unconditionally refuse every direct or indirect war service and try to induce my friends to adopt the same attitude, irrespective of the general opinion of the causes of war.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Einstein Would Refuse Any War Services No Matter What the Cause // Jewish Telegraphic Agency Bulletin, September 8, 1929