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Friendship Quotes


"Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk."


"Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?"


"Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples."


"I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies."


"Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm."


"The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool."


"I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children."


"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime."


"You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends."


"All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend."


"Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"


"William Holden and I weren't just good friends. He was my very best friend. I feel his loss very much still."


"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"


"Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure."


"I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk."


"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 it's a form of sacrament."


"All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs."


"All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim."


"I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk."


"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."


"There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor."



"I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends."


"A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady."


"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."


"Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship."


"I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones."


"But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined."


"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."


"Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists."


"One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends."


"There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends."


"This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die."


"I have always done films with friends rather than strangers."


"I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives."


"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."


"The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy."


"I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often."


"And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future."


"It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have."


"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."


"I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends."


"To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up."


"When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many."


"I used to be friends with Miles Davis. He didn't like many folks. I lived across the street from him."


"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."


"My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms."
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