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“The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.”

Source: Beloved

“I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you need. I'd rather have three really good friends than 20 good friends.”

Inspirational Needs Stills Kids Three Parent Four Wife My Wife Good Friend Grandparent Really Good Friends

Author:David Beckham

“I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.”

Trying Mean Shows Marriage Laughing Husband My Husband Good Friend Vow Marriage Vows

Book:A Short Guide to a Happy Life

Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life

“I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.”

Helping Form Order Enemy Sick Catholic Atheist Cures Collectives Good Friend Neurosis Myopic

Author:Diego Rivera

“I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.”

Knows Mean Girl Students College Ordinary Dating Cinema Good Friend Waitress College Students Ordinary Girl

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.”

Two Ends Guy Hate Comedy Crazy Good Friend Buddy Really Cool Two Guys Cool Movie

Author:Sean William Scott

“A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.”

Giving Might Clothes Smell Breathe Good Friend Perfume My Best Friend Fragrance Best Friend Sellers Furnaces Blacksmiths Bad Friend

Author:Muhammad

“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”

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Author:Marlene Dietrich

“Life though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made along the way. Life is a kind of swings and roundabouts situation; if you can't kick a football you turn to other pursuits.”

Ifs Way Life Wells Kind Has Beens Made Life Is Turns Situation Journey Football Mets Blessed Pursuit Kicks Swings Good Friend Compensation Life Journey

Author:John McLeod

“I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire' in French, and 'Vrijheid' in Flemish... the Victory which will give us back our freedom, the Victory of our good friends the English. Their word for Victory also begins with V. As you see, things fit all round.”

Giving Firsts Victory Fit Letters Rounds Good Friend Emblems Rallying

Author:Victor de Laveleye

“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.”

Men Needs Self Matter Friendship Enemy Tasks Former Latter Good Friend Preservation Ardent Self Preservation

Author:Diogenes

“All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by.”

Needs Running Girl Share Needed Good Friend Every Girl

Author:Adriana Trigiani

“If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Success Friendship Successful Musician Being Successful Good Friend Success In Life Punk Rock Great Friend Great Friendship

Book:Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.”

Feels Writing Firsts Wells Happens Wish Magic Students Reader Letters Intelligent Good Friend Well Wishes

Author:Ellen Gilchrist

“My very good friend, Rahm Emanuel, made it very clear to me on several occasions that I was, quote, unquote, not a team player; that I was not - that I didn't not have a future.”

Made Clear Player Team Very Good Made It Occasions Good Friend Team Player Very Good Friends

Author:Eric Massa

“It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.”

Ifs Knows Heart Art Culture Lost Speak Modern Essentials Busy Affair Ancient Take Time Good Friend Modern Life Converses

Book:A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life

Source: A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life

“Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.”

Wells Sports Player Friends Good Friend Comes And Goes

Author:Mats Sundin

“The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.”

Distance Unconditional Love Good Friend Unconditional Good Friendship

Book:How To Maxmise Your Life

Source: How To Maxmise Your Life

“The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.”

People Needs Decision Wise Building Starting Good Friend Starting Point Great Relationship Wise Decision

Book:How To Maxmise Your Life

Source: How To Maxmise Your Life

“All in all, it is a good life we are living, in a good world filled with good friends.”

World Filled Good Life Good Friend

Author:Carlos P. Romulo

“How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em.” ― How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein “Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.”

“The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.”

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Author:William O. Douglas

“If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal.”

Ifs Mother Normal Curse Good Friend Drs Curse Words

Author:Pope Francis

“Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.”

Mind Book Ideas Reading Aspiration Good Ideas Good Friend Good Book Cultivation Implants Reading Good Books

Author:Mas Oyama

“The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror.”

Needs Mirrors Good Friend

Author:Rumi

“Gatewood Galbraith was a good friend, and a tireless advocate for the repeal of the ridiculous ban on hemp & marijuana. His book ‘The Last Free Man Standing’ says it all.”

Men Book Lasts Standing Ridiculous Marijuana Good Friend Bans Free Man Hemp

Author:Willie Nelson

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.”

Book:Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice

Source: Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice

“Casey Blake (a former Minnesota Twin, now with the Indians) is a good friend of mine, I'd like to see the Indians win.”

Winning Mines Former Twins Good Friend Minnesota Blake

Author:Corey Koskie

“With Clinton, there's no question that I would have made fun of his out-and-out lying. But he's also a good friend.”

Made Lying Fun Clinton Good Friend

Author:Chevy Chase

“I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all.”

People Want Good Friend

Author:Kirsten Dunst

“I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."”

Thinking Knows Men Should Wells Art Said Different Talking Keys One Day Fingers Strikes Brilliant Sensitive Concerts Good Friend Pianist Talking To Him Sensitive Man

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.”

Care Journey England Passages Good Friend Voyages Gunners

Book:The tryal of Capt. William Kidd for murther & piracy upon six several indictments: as also the tryals of Nicholas Churchill, James Howe, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Abel Owens, Richard Barlicorn, & Darby Mullins, at the Admiralty sessions held at the Old Bailey, London, on the 8th & 9th of May, 1701

Source: The tryal of Capt. William Kidd for murther & piracy upon six several indictments: as also the tryals of Nicholas Churchill, James Howe, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loff, Hugh Parrot, Abel Owens, Richard Barlicorn, & Darby Mullins, at the Admiralty sessions held at the Old Bailey, London, on the 8th & 9th of May, 1701

“I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'”

People Knows Years Kind Play Character Father College Son Husband Married Finished Screens Criticize Good Friend Donate Good Father Good Husband Being A Good Father

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.”

Men Stills Earth Birth Fit Holy Christmas Gentle Good Friend Peace On Earth Carols

Book:Miscellanies: Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads

Source: Miscellanies: Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads

“We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.”

People Death Dies Enjoy Broken Sorrow This Life Good Friend Assurance Gratification Broken Down

Author:Saint Augustine

“Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.”

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Author:Richard Widmark

“Good friends don't have to visit each other every day.”

Author:Juan Manuel Santos

“I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.”

Feelings Mother Energy Citizens Involved Very Good Nerves Good Friend Good Citizen Good Mother Very Good Friends Good Sister

Author:Maya Angelou

“I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.”

Long Issues Coffee Debate Intense Good Friend

Author:Phil Crane

“Good friends are hard to find so when you find one, hold on tight!”

Hard Good Friend

Author:Omar Suleiman

“Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.”

People Needs Ends Home Parent Friendship Perfect Family Picks Chosen Loyal Good Friend Sibling Lifting Dependable Female Friendship Without Friends Perfect Friendship

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.”

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Author:Amber Tamblyn

“Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.”

Has Beens Successful Rights Movement Civil Rights Ministry Good Friend Drs Civil Rights Movement

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.”

“It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.”

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Author:Elizabeth Perkins

“The Jonas Brothers are all sweet. They're so amazing to me. They've become really good friends of mine, but I'm not dating any of them.”

Mines Sweet Brother Dating Good Friend Really Good Friends Jonas Brothers

Author:Selena Gomez

“To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.”

Ifs Long Wonderful Feet Emotional Very Good Graves Behave Good Friend

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Things which provide deep and lasting happiness and gratitude are the things which money cannot buy: our families, the gospel, good friends, our health, our abilities, the love we receive from those around us.”

Ability Gratitude Our Family Lasting Good Friend Lasting Happiness

Author:Thomas S. Monson