How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
Alexander the GreatHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. EisenhowerI was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.
Lady GagaMy family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.
Billy GrahamPreparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.
Russell M. NelsonI’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.
The WeekndI feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.
Virat KohliDon’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert CamusPiety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
AristotleThe only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
Taylor SwiftThis character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.
Adam SandlerWhen I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn – I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point – and that was it.
Lana Del ReyI have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.
Taylor SwiftWe can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerMy friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
Taylor SwiftI never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.
Lando NorrisSometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
Taylor SwiftI have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan PoeLet it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.
Charles SpurgeonI was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.
Maya AngelouAll of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
Mark ZuckerbergNever make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
ChanakyaIt is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
EpicurusMuch publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
Charles Bukowski‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!
Taylor SwiftI’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
Vivienne WestwoodI’ve always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.
Adam SandlerThe kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.
Lady GagaFor though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
AristotleOne of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.
Maya AngelouThe trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Ronald ReaganA sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand RussellI need physics more than friends.
J. Robert OppenheimerThe people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
Virat KohliBasketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
LeBron JamesBefore I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.
Greta ThunbergAmong the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Abraham LincolnBooks like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel JohnsonPeople hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.
David ByrneI was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.
Steven WrightFriends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I’m still skiing. So, we’ll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.
Jimmy CarterMy friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.
Cristiano RonaldoWhen I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.
Billie EilishIt’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Christopher HitchensI think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.
Marilyn MonroeWhat really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.
Mark ZuckerbergI don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark TwainAnimals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George EliotI thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.
Kurt CobainAll that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.
Russell M. NelsonIt takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. RowlingWhen I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.
Anthony BourdainThe Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.
Jerry SeinfeldI’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.
Kurt CobainI am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson MandelaGood friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark TwainI’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
Kevin HartA lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.
Dolly PartonThink about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
Mark Zuckerberg