Lost Friend Quotes - Page 2

• If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Self, People

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• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  Samuel Butler

  Friendship, Best Friend, Money

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

  Sean Covey

  Friendship, Best Friend, Losing Friends

  Sean Covey (1999). “Daily Reflections For Highly Effective Teens”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

  Judy Holliday

  Friendship, Betrayed, Lovers

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• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Friendship, Attitude, Power

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• Respect is based on Friendship,and friendship is based on love and love is so accidental isn't it ?

  Robert E. Lee

  Love Is, Lost Friendship, And Love

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• Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

  Blaise Pascal

  Loss, Winning, Lost Friendship

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• I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Kindness, Cheer, Believe

  Elbert Hubbard (1933). “Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses”

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• Love is friendship with erotic moments.

  Antonio Gala

  Love Is, Lost Friendship, Erotic

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• I'll always have the memories of guys I lost in Vietnam. And I've lost friends since the war, but I'll always have the memories. The riches are great, but riches aren't everything, because when you go you can only take your memories and your word and your honor to the grave with you.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Memories, War, Guy

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• By the time I make my way to the border of Mauritania, to the edge of the Sahara, I see no end to being lost. You can spend your entire life simply falling in that direction. It isn't a station you reach but just the general state of going down. Once you make it back, if you make it back, you will stand before your long-lost friends but in some essential way they will no longer know you.

  Nick Flynn

  Fall, Long, Essentials

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• I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

  Scotty McCreery

  Thinking, Important, Age

  "Scotty McCreery on ‘See You Tonight,’ Brad Paisley and country lyrics". Interview with Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. October 17, 2013.

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• The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

  Dennis Potter

  Pain, Loss, Eden

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• Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

  Barbra Streisand

  Loss, People, Lost Friendship

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• A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Son, Good Friend, Lost Friendship

  "Ethan of Athos". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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• And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Friendship, Country, Ties

  Margaret Cavendish (2002). “Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions”, p.206, Broadview Press

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• Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Lost Friendship, Lost Everything

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• The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers.

  John Vinocur

  Warrior, Lost Friendship, Battle

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• The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

  Christopher Lasch

  Party, Common Sense, Lost Friendship

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• It really started after The Long Kiss Goodnight sold for just a sinful amount of money. People were angry that I took the money. People offer you $4 million for a script - what are you going to say? "No, I'd rather sell it for $100,000"? But it engendered so much anger, I lost friends over it. And no one talked about the creative content of anything I did any more. They all just assumed I was this guy with a formula, a hack formula.

  Shane Black

  Kissing, Long, People

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• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  Ulrich Beck

  Loss, Lost Friendship, Doe

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• The world has lost a legend, and I have lost a friend. Johnny Cash was the rare soul who could be both.

  Emmylou Harris

  Music, Soul, World

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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Loss

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

  Paul Simon

  Art, Essence, Lost Friendship

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• You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

  Joseph Stalin

  Loss, Hair, Lost Friendship

  Joseph Stalin (1970). “Selected writings”

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