Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judith Viorst

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

Joshua Harris

‎True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.

Kate Morton

A true friend is a light in the dark. Viven

Laurell K. Hamilton

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

Kathryn Hahn

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

Mark Strand

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.

Mariella Frostrup

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Mortimer Adler

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

R. Lee Ermey

Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.

R. Lee Ermey

Try as you may, you can never defy love.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince is also esteemed when he is a true friend and a true enemy.

Jodi Picoult

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Jodi Picoult

Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed

Jodi Picoult

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

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.

Mary Renault

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

Mary Schmich

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

Nicholas Sparks

They wouldn't understand, and I don't feel the need to explain, simply because I know in my heart how real it was. When I think of you, I can't help smiling, knowing that you've completed me somehow. I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you'll take me in your arms again

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

Nicholas Sparks

How far should a person go in the name of true love?

Michael Crichton

The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society.

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.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

Nelson Mandela

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

Omar Suleiman

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are no true friends in politics.

Kiana Tom

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

Margaret Thatcher

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.