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“Back then it was a very realistic thing for me. My own thing was, you know, wake up at 5 in the afternoon, it's dark out, hang out, maybe take a shower, then start drinking, start smoking pot, go out with friends, get wasted.”
Jack Osbourne (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tolstoy was an advocate of non-resistance only because he was protected from people’s impudence by his innumerable friends. One man can stand for non-resistance, because those who stand for resistance will protect him. You will not be able to do without resistance advocates.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from Non-resistance or struggle -- a manuscript written in 1935
“You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) said by 1801 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed)
“I think the Moon is a world like this one, and the Earth is its moon." My friends greeted this with a burst of laughter. "And maybe," I told them, "someone on the Moon is even now making fun of someone else who says that our globe is a world.”
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) said by 1655 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Every seed is awakened, and all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) said by 1890 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Charles Eastman, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1918)
“I hated school, and dropped out of college. I got picked on a lot in school, and had a lot of trouble making friends.”
Bram Cohen (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) first seen 1818 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Days Among the Dead Are Past, st. 1 (1818).
“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) first seen 1815 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: National Airs, Spring and Autumn, st. 1 (1815).
“Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.”
Peggy Noonan (born 1950) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What I Saw at the Revolution : A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990), p. 321
“As the quality of water changes with the nature of the soil; So will a man’s reason vary with the quality of his friends.”
Thiruvalluvar wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spell a word wrong, sit down in front of your friends." Yeah, that's great for little egos:|Brian”
Brian Regan (comedian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dear friends, colleagues, and fans, my physicians have recently told me I may have a neurological disorder whose symptoms are consistent with Alzheimer's disease. So I wanted to prepare a few words for you now because when the time comes, I may not be able to.”
Charlton Heston (1923–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[playing golf with his friends]”
Bill Engvall (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[playing Pictionary with his wife and some friends]”
Bill Engvall (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child’s own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.”
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) said by 1861 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Evil reports of a churlish wilderness, a pitiless climate, disease, misery, and death, had heralded the arrival of De Monts. The outlay had been great, the returns small; and when he reached Paris, he found his friends cold, his enemies active and keen.”
Francis Parkman (1823–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc’d true friends, and beat down baffling foes?”
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.”
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“President George W. Bush, Mrs. Bush, ladies and gentlemen, dear friends. I'm glad to visit the United States in the lovely season of spring, at your invitation, Mr. President. I wish to convey to the great American people the warm greetings and best wishes of the 1.3 billion Chinese people.”
“Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said — of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.”
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) first seen 1833 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First lines of Dicken's first published work, originally titled "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" (1833), later published as "Mr. Minns and his Cousin
“Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.”
Rani Mukerji (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First of all, getting mad at a politician is like getting mad at Jennifer Aniston cause it's bad episode of Friends. They don't write it.”
“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.”
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human mind can no more produce an original thought than a tree can bear an original fruit. As well might one cry for an original note in music as expect an original idea from a human brain. One wishes our friends, the critics, would grasp this simple truth, and leave off clamoring for the impossible, and being shocked because they do not get it.”
Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Believe me, my friends, you are yet very deficient with regard to the best modes of training your children, or of arranging your domestic concerns.”
Robert Owen (1771–1858) said by 1858 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Money, you've got lots of friends Crowding round the door When you're gone, spending ends They don't come no more Rich relations give Crust of bread and such You can help yourself But don't take too much.”
Billie Holiday (1915–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.”
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) said by 1131 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LV (1889)
“Stewart Copeland is an amazing drummer. I just wish he didn't think he was amazing. Sting is a lovely bloke. We've become friends. I felt honored to be on stage with him at Live Aid.”
Phil Collins (born 1951) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Playboy interview (October 1986)
“A surprise party is where your friends and family lie to you to make you feel alone and unloved. Then, when they throw you the party they would have thrown, regardless, you experience a sudden rush of emotion as your depressed self returns back to normal. Some people think that life in general's like that. They keep waiting for the party. I call that: denial.”
“The social and political order in some particular countries did change in the past, and it can change in the future as well. But this is exclusively a matter for the peoples themselves and of their choice. Any interference in internal affairs, any attempts to limit the sovereignty of states — whether of friends and allies or anybody else — are inadmissible.”
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My good friends, this is the second time in our history that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.”
Neville Chamberlain (1869–1940) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Excerpt from Chamberlain's speech from the window of 10 Downing Street after returning from Munich (30 September 1938), having signed a peace treaty with Adolf Hitler in Munich, Germany. This remark came back to haunt C…
“If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini, and our friends in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran would gradually have been brought down. His efforts would have spread westwards, and Libya and North Africa would have been brought under his control.”
Anthony Eden (1897–1977) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Eisenhower (5 November 1956), quoted in Peter G. Boyle (ed.), The Eden-Eisenhower Correspondence, 1955-1957 (2006), p. 183
“His friends weren’t Christians; that much was certain. But even so they couldn’t play as he could (brought up a Christian) with a new religious system, ludicrous in both theory and application. They were, after all, Greeks. Nothing in excess, Augustus.”
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An unsteady nation has no friends. The German people seriously worry me. The only thing I can say for them is that they have lived through too much. They have not found peace of mind and stability since the war of 1914-18.”
Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) first seen 1876 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Adenauer 1876-1967" (28 April 1967) by James Bell, Life, Vol. 62, No. 17
“All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no...”
Robbie Williams (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I warn my hon. Friends...that once we cut defence expenditure to the extent where our security is imperilled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders.”
Denis Healey (1917–2015) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (5 March 1969)
“Many of the environmentalists who moved into the environmental movement after Silent Spring ... detested pollution and craved purity. Absolute purity. They wanted to enforce zero tolerance on all environmental pollutants, not just on carcinogens. With friends like these the environment needs no enemies.”
Garrett Hardin (1915–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where are they now, my nameless friends from those two years I spent in hell? What specters mock them now, amid the fury of Siberian snows, or in the blighted circle of the moon? To them I cry, Hail and Farewell! — March 1940”
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the USA. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will fly the American flag any way but upside-down, the international signal of distress... It's too late to pray for the USA.”
Fred Phelps (1929–2014) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermon_20010914.mp3". WBC Download Center. Westboro Baptist Church. September 14, 2001
“He's like one of my best friends in the world. Absolutely genuine guy, I swear on the bible.”
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked about Eddie Vedder - Howard Stern Show, June 2007
“They were [my] friends. Those guys were like The Monkees. They lived in this house all together... no joke, the whole band all together in the same house, and they were really fun. They were really young guys and they lived the real Rock life. Of course it all went horribly wrong later, but they were great.”
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When asked about Alice in Chains - Howard Stern Show, June 2007
“Oddly enough, I was in Paris, the last show of a Soundgarden tour. I didn't know him that well, but I had friends who were trying to talk to him and it wasn't working out. I had this idea that when I got home, I'd try and sit down with him.”
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're all a bit socially awkward in our band at the best of times, and while we're more comfortable with the fan thing now, it's still odd and slightly surreal. I have friends who are celebrities who're a lot more extrovert and social than me, and they can't lead a normal life because they're so recognisable. It's changed their lives a lot and they can't change it back.”
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've always been really anti-social, and being relatively famous has just given me an excuse to go out even less. If I didn't play in Soundgarden I'd have no excuse for being the way I am. My friends and family would hate me, whereas now they probably feel sorry for me. Y'know, 'Poor kid, he can't come out because he gets hassled a lot.'”
Chris Cornell (1964–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And if this is what we’ve got, then what we’ve got is gold We’re shining bright and I want you, I want you to know The morning’s on its way Our friends all say goodbye There’s nowhere else to go I hope that you’ll stay the night You'll stay the night.”
James Blunt (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had offers from Dodgers, Giants and Braves. Braves offer same amount as Dodgers but I have many friends on Brooklyn team. I feel more at home there and I sign.”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Scoreboard" by Les Biederman, in The Pittsburgh Press (Tuesday, May 10, 1955), p. 31
“I think the fans in Pittsburgh are the best in baseball. They've always been on my side, even when I'm going bad. I've made plenty of friends and I would not trade these people for anybody, anywhere.”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Canada they no have much segregation. But one day I am signing autographs and talking to white man and his wife outside park, and this other man say, "You not supposed to talk to white woman." I say, "No, I talk to the one I want. I talk to my friends. You believe in that stuff if you want. I don't do it.”
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "The Man in the Pirate Uniform: Clemente is Spectacular" by Myron Cope, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Tuesday, August 23, 1960), p. 29