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“I've been trying to explain to friends who've seen the trailer and said, "Oh wow, it looks amazing and you're in it!" I'm like, "Well, yes, but that's my whole part!”
Sienna Guillory (born 1975) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Redefining Elves Sienna Guillory on tackling the role of Arya in Eragon Article. Rotten Tomatoes. 18 December 2006.
“For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.”
Ken MacLeod (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Major-General John Sullivan (15 December 1779), published in The Writings of George Washington (1890) by Worthington Chauncey Ford, Vol. 8, p. 139
“Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it can't be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But, if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle. I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than to surrender it.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raising a flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Soldiers — You are about to return to your homes and your friends, after having, as I learn, performed in camp a comparatively short term of duty in this great contest. I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I suppose you are going home to see your families and friends. For the service you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There have been men who have proposed to me to return to slavery the black warriors of Port Hudson and Olustee to their masters to conciliate the South. I should be damned in time and in eternity for so doing. The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think, the people around home are very supportive to us and those are the people who really matter to us, our close friends and close family and I think if they feel you are doing the right thing you can only be true to yourself and you sort of have to ignore a lot of what's said, obviously take it on board, but you have to be yourself really and that's how I have stuck by it really.”
Catherine, Princess of Wales (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One minute she is a sweet old silly, knitting herself a set of syringe covers and talking about her favourite flowers, and the very next moment she has told you and your friends she has a ring supporting the back of her vagina.”
Derren Brown (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s just hassle of having friends and family an’ that.”
Karl Pilkington (born 1972) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Xfm 29 November 2003
“Then there were Cassidy and Allison, her best friends. She knew she could count on them to support her, at least in their own ways. But either of them, when faced with something that might be bearing down on her like a freight train—how rational and lucid would they be?”
“Weapons have no need of friends.”
N. K. Jemisin (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Real friends are those people who will stand for you expressing yourself fully, who will go out of their way to support you to keep your word, to go the extra mile, to get out of the box, to make your dreams come true.”
Nicholas Lore (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In many respects, my best friends were dogs.”
Preston Manning (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politics is a game of friends.”
Jean Chrétien (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It never ceases to surprise me how few friends the doomed have. One moment they are surrounded by smiling faces, the next they are utterly friendless.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most of the heroes we remember—we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends—just admirers.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they’ve never seen your face, they’re not sure where you live and have no map to the place.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fate gives us parents; choice gives us friends.”
Jacques Delille (1738–1813) said by 1813 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He is broken, far from free Words were spoken, 'tween him and me: "I had friends, yes, I was admired I'm so old now, feel so tired." Well he walks to the gate and he looks behind at life in rewind And wishes he had known these things while still alive.”
Happy Rhodes (born 1965) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Temporary And Eternal" - Live performance, later used on the compilation album The Keep (16 May 1995)
“Nietzsche would say my friends lacked ears.”
David Wood (philosopher) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.”
Jack Layton (1950–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2011 Election Night Victory Speech." May 2, 2011
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
Jack Layton (1950–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A letter to Canadians from the Honourable Jack Layton." 20 August 2011.
“We remember the Tommy Douglas quote Jack included in every email he sent: 'Courage my friends, 'tis never too late to build a better world'.”
Nycole Turmel (born 1942) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: friends, colleagues pay tribute to Layton August 22, 2011.
“Say to the friends. Go on, go on, halt not and rest not. Remember that "eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" and of right. Much has been achieved; but the main, the vital thing, has yet to come. The suffrage is the magic key to the statute-the insignia of citizenship in a republic.”
Ernestine Rose (1810–1892) first seen 1878 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter to the National Woman Suffrage Association Convention (July 19, 1878)
“...none but those who feel it, can tell the trials and sufferings of those who, for the cause of Freedom-the cause of Truth-have to sacrifice home, wealth, friends, all that makes life desirable, and become strangers and wanderers in foreign lands.”
Ernestine Rose (1810–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We marvel at them; we read them aloud to our friends and spouses, even, occasionally, to passersby; we analyze them; we lament our inability to match them.”
Stanley Fish (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the meanwhile I retire to my well-earned bath-chair, from which I shall watch with a fatherly eye the philosophic gambols of my younger friends as they dance to the highly syncopated pipings of Herr Wittgenstein's flute.”
C. D. Broad (1887–1971) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the Preface to Mind and Its Place in Nature (1925)
“Shortly after I entered Parliament, it became clear to me that I had too many friends. What I needed was some enemies. There was no way that I was ever going to get across the message that I wanted to give to the people of this country if I used the soft, simple word, offending no-one and in fact being heard by no-one.”
Robert Muldoon (1921–1992) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Way, 1981
“Today, when the Gospel is under attack from all directions, I too must ask the question: What profit do you get from your unbelief? I never get the impression that people have peace of mind or are happier for all their unbelief. No, my friends.”
Wilhelm Busch (pastor) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What's the use of walking with God? p. 216 (19 June 1966)
“We meet fellow humans throughout our travels, Become close — friends, dates, lovers. Always we are distanced again from death, geography, or meeting others, Only dialtone on the phone, cold and empty beneath the covers.”
Patri Friedman (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”
Norman Douglas (1868–1952) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: South Wind (1917), ch. 20
“People are terrified of changing their minds. Changing your mind is a door you don't want to open because you don’t know what’s behind it. Changing your mind means losing all your friends. Changing your mind means a complete revolution in your life. Changing your mind means publicly admitting you’ve been wrong. […] People don’t want to change their minds.”
Peter Hitchens (born 1951) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talk with Eric Metaxas for Socrates in the City, in Oxford (c. 6 January 2016); "Peter Hitchens: The Rage Against God", Socrates in the City, YouTube (6 January 2016).
“Roger: So we had to wait until it, like, settled in court so we could figure it out. I mean, we’re friends and everything, but when it comes to money…”
Roger Manganelli (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you really want to know who your friends are, see you stands by you in a storm”
Michael Elmore-Meegan (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.”
Adele (singer) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 15+ Uplifting Quotes By Adele To Motivate And Inspire You HerZindagi (30 September 2024)
“Take heart, my friends! There is a God! There is a God!”
Aurangzeb (1618–1707) said by 1707 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aurangzeb during battle with Dara Shikoh Also in Guru Tegh Bahadur, Prophet and Martyr: A Biography by Trilochan Singh [ Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, 1967] p. 98 Also in Heroes of Islam Series: Mohy-ud-Din Alamgir Aur…
“I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.”
Lana Del Rey (born 1985) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lana Del Rey hoped music industry would make her more friends". Digital Spy. Digital Spy Ltd. January 29, 2012.
“I think that provided us to do it this time, because it's like okay, we've cleared that air, you know, we're friends and we respect that he's the best rock drummer in the world, you know. You can be as good, but you’re not better than Dave Grohl.”
Josh Homme (born 1973) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Josh Homme Interview", The Fade.org (Aug. 2002).
“I think we were better as friends than husband and wife.”
Nastassja Kinski (born 1961) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her relationship with Ibrahim Moussa, as quoted in Cameron Docherty, Interview: Nastassja Kinski - Still a daddy's girl, The Independent, September 26, 1997
“It’s more important to avoid making enemies than to focus on making friends.”
Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.”
Samuel Youd (1922–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who will speak like that? In our generation there have not been friends like Rajini and I are. He could have just said a few words of praise and gone away – and then there was no need to say.”
Kamal Haasan (born 1954) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In reply to the wholesome praise that Rajnikanth showered on Kamal Haasan, in Rajinikanth: The Definitive Biography (15 January 2014), p. 120
“A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.”
Rahul Dravid (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My friends in the nouveau paganism camp accuse me of quaintness: Bible thumpers are straw men, so why bother?...My answer is that straw men, once set aflame with zeal, can be quite dangerous, and that the gap between New Age irrationalism and Christian fundamentalism is not nearly so wide as we might wish to believe.”
James K. Morrow (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source