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Friendship Quotes


"By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group."


"This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character."


"I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been."


"I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I'll do it, if I can. You don't have to do this alone.Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn't true. If it could be done, Ender was the one who would have to do it. All those months when Bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn't bear to face the fact that Ender was what Bean only wished to be - the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you.I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there."


"Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it."


"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."


"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."


"Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years."


"Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth."


"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means."


"Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends."


"We're having a blast. Just four friends getting together."


"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."


"Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can."


"Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer."


"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."


"We'll just sit here," said Barney, "and if we think of anything worth while saying we'll say it. Otherwise, not. Don't imagine you're bound to talk to me.""John Foster says," quoted Valancy, "'If you can sit in silencewith a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, youand that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'llnever be and you need not waste time in trying.'""Evidently John Foster says a sensible thing once in a while,"conceded Barney."


"A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."


"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."


"Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves."


"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."


"We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens."


"I usually try on at least 20 pairs of jeans before I find something that looks good on me. And even then, I have a trustworthy friend tell me if my butt looks big!"


"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity."


"There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other."


"My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends."


"The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them."


"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."


"A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably."


"Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends."


"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."


"It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host."


"People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality."


"The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study."


"The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom."


"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn't have a lot of friends. Theater really represented camaraderie."


"Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for."


"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!"


"And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years."


"With all the horror in the world and all the crap that's going on, for an hour and a half you go eat some popcorn and laugh with your friends. That's what a movie is all about."


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


"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."


"I know a way to stay friends forever, There's really nothing to it, I tell you what to do, And you do it."


"Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough."


"I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."


"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."


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


"I am pleased to launch the Friends of Thailand Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives."
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