Close Friends Quotes - Page 9

• I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

  S. E. Hinton

  Males

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• I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

  Nelson DeMille

  Dinner, Unwind

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• He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

  Isaac Barrow

  Reading, Book, Thinking

  "The theological works of Isaac Barrow".

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• Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Appreciation, Two, Democracy

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• Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Book, Responsibility, Years

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• Looking to the future, the words uncertain and scared near the top but hopeful and optimistic prevail and beneath the division one sign of civility, 73 percent of Americans have a close friend or family member who voted for an opposing candidate.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Optimistic, Hopeful, Division

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.

  Dervla Murphy

  Home, Loss, Occupation

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• There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.

  Jimmy Page

  Real, People, I Can

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.

  Jane Jacobs

  Responsibility, Successful, Cities

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.82, Vintage

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• I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Running, Stupid, Mean

  Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.183, Macmillan

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• I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

  Brad Pitt

  Few Friends, My Family, Handful

  "Brad Pitt: A Life So Large" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. May 20, 2013.

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• To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A really decent god-believer, far from giving thanks for the food and good health and fortune enjoyed by himself and his family and close friends, would surely curse God for his neglect of the hungry, the sick and the tormented, throughout the world.

  Barbara Smoker

  Selfish, Knowing, People

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• The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type … Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

  Brittany Maynard

  Beautiful, Goodbye, Teacher

  "Brittany Maynard Has Ended Her Life" by Lexi Petronis, www.glamour.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

  Clayton Christensen

  Joy, Intimate, Source

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• Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.

  Torrey DeVitto

  People, Advice, Here And There

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.

  Bill Berry

  Friendship, Moving, Years

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• My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.

  Zaha Hadid

  Memories, Father, Aunt

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

  Sally Quinn

  Funny, Religious, Party

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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