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Friendship Quotes


"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."


"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."


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


"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."


"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."


"While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind."


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


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


"Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them."


"Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us."


"I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends."


"Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?"


"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."


"I'm sure those rumors are spread, but it's just ah - we're really good friend. We've been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we've been together in school. We've gotten really close, but I don't know about the more than friends stuff."


"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."


"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you."


"Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time."


"Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached."


"Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad."



"You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities."


"As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip."


"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."


"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses."


"Your wealth is where your friends are."


"We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional."


"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."


"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war."


"A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease."


"I like my friends to be the hitters. The pitchers, they all have the same brain as I do. The hitters see the game from a different perspective."


"I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways."


"Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead."


"There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite."


"Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very, disappointed because I didn't have anything which is, live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore."


"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes."


"A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend."


"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."


"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."


"It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them."


"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."


"The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South."


"Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction."


"In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform."


"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected."


"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us."
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