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Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Nick Hornby in High Fidelity

Friendship Family

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

David Nicholls in One Day

Friendship

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.

Stieg Larsson in The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

Friendship

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.

Stieg Larsson in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Trust Friendship Respect

There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.

Korean Saying

Spring Friendship Winter

That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fck up for a minute and comfortably share the silence.

Mia Wallace in Pulp Fiction

Being Silent

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Federico García Lorca in Blood Wedding and Yerma

Being Silent Desire

You don't talk much... I like you!

Ellie in Up

Being Silent

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln

Being Silent

What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?

Angie Thomas in The Hate U Give

Being Silent Voices

It's great to share silence with someone else.

Kurt Tucholsky

Being Silent

'I don't think...'
'Then you shouldn't talk', said the Hatter.

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

Thinking Talking

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Talking

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Lies Men Taking action Talking

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

Talking

May your sword be sharp and your tongue sharper.

The Elder Scrolls - 5 - Skyrim

Talking Swords & Blades

Diplomacy is a battle I has never learnt to fight.

Skrimir in Fire Emblem - Radiant Dawn

Talking Diplomacy

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.

Johannes Kepler

Mind & Apprehension Seeing Hearing & Listening Ohren

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Diogenes Laertios

Talking Hearing & Listening Ohren

Oh, gee, Dumbo. I think your ears are beautiful!

Timothy in Dumbo

Ohren

If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.

Thumper in Bambi

Kindness Mouth

A bl*wjob isn't with your mouth, it's with your heart. Now get on your knees and put that heart to work.

Randy Marsh in South Park - Season 15 Episode 11

Mouth

Statistically speaking, the most bacteria-ridden place on the planet is the mouth of an American woman.

Eric Cartman in South Park - Season 13 Episode 1

Mouth

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Theodor Seuss Geisel in Horton Hears a Who!

Voices Elections & Voting Mouth

Mr. Fredricksen: "Hey, let's play a game. It's called: See Who Can Be Quiet the Longest."
Russell: "Cool, my mom loves that game."

Russell in Up

Mother & Son Mouth

You wouldn't know love if it shat in your mouth!

Rebecca Webb in The One - Season 1 Episode 1

Mouth

The Jedi are trained to let go. They're trained from birth. They're not supposed to form attachments. They can love people – in fact, they should love everybody. They should love their enemies; they should love the Sith. But they can't form attachments. So what all these movies are about is: greed. Greed is a source of pain and suffering for everybody.

George Lucas

Greed Jedi

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Greed Wise Sayings

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes

Greed Satisfaction

You see everyone wants everything, that's the way the world is. But I just might actually get it.

Jigo in Princess Mononoke

Greed Climate Change

This is how it's done. When people are sittin' on shit that you want, you make 'em your enemy. Then you're justified in taking it.

Jake Sully in Avatar -

Greed War

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Elizabeth Taylor

Greed

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

J.D. in Scrubs

Remorse Satisfaction

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go

Passenger - Let Her Go

Breakup Missing Someone Satisfaction

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Bob Marley

Life Satisfaction

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Love Relationships Satisfaction Loss

No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

Satisfaction

You wish for something, you've wanted it for years, and you're sure you want it, as long as you know you can't have it. But if all at once it looks as though your wish might come true, you suddenly find yourself wishing you had never wished for any such thing.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Wishes Satisfaction

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

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