You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.
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FRIENDS [after Ross comes in dressed as a SPUDnik]
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FRIENDS Phoebe : They don't know that we know they know we know.
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FRIENDS Chandler to Joey:Yes, on a scale from one to ten, ten being the dumbest a person can look, you are d...
FRIENDS Joey enters wearing an elf costume. Chandler is in agony] Chandler: Too many jokes. Must mock Joey.
FRIENDS Pheobe: "I'm late for...uhhh...my Green Eggs and Ham discussion group. Tonight is why he would not e...
FRIENDS She was a promiscuous lady in her younger days.
FRIENDS [Joey is making marinara sauce and filling every container possible with it. Chandler enters] Chandl...
FRIENDS Chandler [In response to a stupid comment]: You have to stop the Q-Tip when there's resistance.
FRIENDS [after Ross comes in dressed as a SPUDnik] Chandler: Suddenly I don't have the worst costume anymore...
FRIENDS There's definitely an element of fatal attraction here. I think that's great; that's a compliment,
FRIENDS They eliminated 82 percent of what they originally proposed for critical habitat,
FRIENDS The Edge Of Texas.
FRIENDS Mark Twain.
FRIENDS ...Because it is too damn hard, I can't even begin to explain to you how much I gonna miss you. When...
FRIENDS [Chandler walks in] Joey: You know, with that goatee, you kinda look like Satan.
FRIENDS I can't believe it. I mean, I think it's great. For him, she might be able to do better.
FRIENDS [Reading Rachel's romance novel.] Monica: 'Throbbing pens? Don't wanna be around when he writes with...
FRIENDS [Ross coming back from bathroom, getting ready to play poker with Rachel] Ross: Your money is mine, ...
FRIENDS Mr Heckles: quiet, your disturbing my birds!Rachel: you dont have birdsMr Heckles: i could have bird...
FRIENDS [to Ross] Chandler: You know if your not careful, you could not get married at all this year.
FRIENDS I just feel lucky to be able to do things other than that character, you know, other than Rachel (he...
FRIENDS Ross: First divorce: wife's hidden sexuality, not my fault. Second divorce: said the wrong name at t...
FRIENDS Chandler: Ding dong, the psycho's gone.
FRIENDS Chandler: I'm not so good with the advice... Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?
FRIENDS [to Ross]
Chandler: You know if your not careful, you could not get married at all this year.
FRIENDS Joey : Pheebs, you wanna help?
Phoebe : Oh, I wish I could, but I really don't want to.
FRIENDS Chandler: Ew, ew, ew, ew ew ew ew ew. Ugly Naked Guy got a Thighmaster.
FRIENDS Rachel: Oh my God. I've become my father. I've been trying so hard not to become my mother, I didn't...
FRIENDS Joey: But I-I-I can't stay too long, I gotta get up early for a commercial audition tomorrow and I g...
FRIENDS [Ross is trying to cheer Chandler up who won't get out of his sweatpants]
Ross: C'mon man, just...
FRIENDS Only true friends remember you when they don't need anything from you..
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STEPHEN KING Friends is all you need until the time of your death
EINSTINE ORLINE G. NERCUIT The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.
NICOLE RICHIE That's how you get in contact with all your friends. I don't even know my friends' home numbers.
ELISA HAZEL It's difficult to meet new friends when you get older.
BOB LARSON Make friends before you need them
SOURCE UNKNOWN In politics, Madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
BRIAN MULRONEY The people who are your friends before you got the crown are the people who are going to be your bes...
MEG CABOT Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, ...
CONNOR FRANTA I don't need more friends. You got friends and all they do is ask you to help them move. Fuck that. ...
JUSTIN HALPERN It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ...
LIAM NEESON Aspire high but don’t gulp your own Kool-Aid. Find friends who will tell you when your baby is ugl...
LILY CHATTERJEE He always questioned people she was talking to. She never hung out with any of her friends anymore, ...
HALEY GRAINGER You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA When you want to talk to your best friend and tell them the good things that are happening in your l...
NICK WOLF Having friends that support your negative behavior is not true friendship. You need friends that upl...
NERISSA IRVING I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have...
MADDIE ZIEGLER Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.
ERALDO BANOVAC People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty s...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN As I have learned over the years, your friends don’t change; you just learn to ignore or embrace t...
CARRIE ADAMS Never explain yourself. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t believe it
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YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH When you see these fights on TV you see all these celebrities in the front row, so we thought it'd b...
BALTHAZAR GETTY My son, now don’t complain that your friends are jealous of you, because this was the very purpose...
DR HITESH C SHETH When you have a lot of money, you can never seperate fake friends from friends...
OLASOT Fear your friends. Beware of your close friends. Be alert to whom you cast your trust. Because not a...
NATHANIEL E. QUIMADA To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.
SIDNEY SHELDON Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you
CARL HENEGAN Friends that care for you will often make you mad to get you in the right path but those that don’...
EDGAR BARRON If you have crazy friends you have everything you'll ever need.
ANONYMOUS ...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.
JOHN GREEN That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING When you crash you need to go back in the course and just keep going. Then some of my friends told m...
DOMINIQUE MALTAIS My friends hate me because I can get in to all these concerts now.
MATT JORDAN Life is like Mother Nature - unpredictable. Friends /relatives who promise to help, will avoid you w...
SANDHYA JANE Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, pe...
STEPHEN KING Maybe, he thought, there aren't any such things as good or bad friends - maybe there are just friend...
STEPHEN KING You remembered your friends but what you didn't know was that "friends" are just as close as enemies
JUSTIN JONES When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore,...
NOEL GALLAGHER In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them to...
CASSANDRA CLARE You always end up with three classes you need and two classes you have just because you can't get in...
ERIN HERTZOG You can't socialise without being faceless idiots. More people have Facebook friends than actual...
ROMAN REIGNS You know, maybe we don't need enemies."
"Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
BILL WATTERSON You need a really solid foundation of friends and family to keep you where you need to be.
LILLY SINGH Right now I am kind of addicted, ... but when the newness wears off I think it won't be as bad. At f...
ELIZABETH MCDONALD Don’t hate people who show you what’s wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true f...
C. JOYBELL C. When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to u...
HARVEY GANTT The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB I don’t want any other friends! They’d never be as good a friend as you are.
REBECCA MCNUTT The friends you had when you were at the base of the ladder of success are your real friends.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just...
ABBEY CLANCY You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all; you give up on your dreams befor...
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JOHN GREEN But why Alaska?' I asked her.
'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
JOHN GREEN Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
JOHN GREEN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
JOHN GREEN I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN