People Quotes

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

~ Lauren Conrad

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

~ Virginia Woolf

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

~ Lisa See

I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.

~ Cynthia Breazeal

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.

~ Apollonius Of Tyana

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

~ Martin Freeman

Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.

~ Tim Cope

I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.

~ Sam Hunt

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

~ Joan Rivers

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

~ Zhang Ziyi

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

~ John Mayall

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.

~ Martin Freeman

What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.

~ Ian Mckellen

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.

~ Pope Benedict Xvi

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

~ George Santayana

The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.

~ Clayton Christensen

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

~ Paloma Faith

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

~ Martin Mcguinness

Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.

~ Kimberly Guilfoyle

I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

~ Ernie Banks

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

~ Charles De Lint

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

~ Isabel Lucas

I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.

~ Stephen Pagliuca

Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.

~ Vincent Nichols

I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don't know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school.

~ Winnie Holzman

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

~ Laura Riding

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

~ Tim Finn

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

~ Tony Garza

I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.

~ Tyler

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.

~ Eve Ensler

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

~ Garrison Keillor

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

~ Andy Kaufman

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

~ Pete Townshend

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.

~ Jacques Villeneuve

Life is sad. People, you know, are going to pass, and you know that you will one day.

~ James Mercer

Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

~ Ben Whishaw

I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.

~ Yuna