Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Sparks

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wants to believe it's possible, I know it's not going to happen

John Green

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

Michael Robotham

Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and lie for hundreds of years on the ocean floor. Worms destroy the wood. Iron corrodes. Silver turns black but gold doesn't change in sea water. It loses none of its brilliance or colour. It comes up the same. It survives shipwrecks and time.

Markus Zusak

The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest.

Marla Maples

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

Christian Louboutin

Be completely true to yourself and you'll be happy.

George Washington

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.

Eckhart Tolle

True happiness is not related to external conditions but comes from the unconditioned.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.

LaToya Jackson

It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

L. Ron Hubbard

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

Terry Tempest Williams

We forget the nature of true power. The power within is abundance. The power without is greed.

Simon Sinek

A true friend is someone with whom protocol is no longer necessary.

Thomas Jefferson

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Richard Holloway

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Robert Pattinson

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The true success is to labour.

Washington Irving

When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

Voltaire

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

William Butler Yeats

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

Walter Scott

True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven: It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes soon as granted fly; It liveth not in fierce desire.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Sarah Addison Allen

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

Wislawa Szymborska

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Wilmer Valderrama

If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.

Yukio Mishima

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Yousuf Karsh

We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

William Hazlitt

True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.

Walter Mosley

Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.

Willow Shields

Well, my life hasn't really changed... I've been homeschooled for a long time. So that helped a lot because of shooting and stuff. But, I have had friends who I've been friends with for years and years and they are my true friends, you know?