An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

The 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.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

Think 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.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

It is not so much our friends‘ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it’s a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

‚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!

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

The 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.

Sometimes 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.

All 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.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Before 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.

I 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.

All 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.

When 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.

My 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.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

I 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.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

A lot of my heartbreak songs are inspired by things my sisters are going through, or friends.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Basketball 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.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

I like the app where you can make your own memes. I make memes all the time and send them to my friends.

The 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.

This 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.

I 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.

I used to make little movies when I was younger. I’d make my friends be in them and then edit them.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

To this day, some of my closest friends say, ‚Gaga, you know, everything’s great. You’re a singer; your dreams have come true.‘ But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you’re growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they’re true.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.