I’ve always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

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’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

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

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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.

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

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.

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.

I didn’t always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

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 more friends in New York than Paris.

‚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!

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.

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

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.

Don’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.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

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

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

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

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

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.

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

One 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.

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.

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.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

We 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.

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.

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

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

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 was always singing but didn’t plan on pursuing it seriously. 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.

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

I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that’s how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

I 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‘.

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 and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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.

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

The 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!

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

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.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

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

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

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