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Friendship Quotes


"My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do."


"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time."


"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help."


"This is Annabeth, Jason said. "Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people."



"She climbs inside the car and they leave, and I just stand there watching them because I don't know that I've ever had a friend like her in my whole life. Maybe it's the wine. I don't know, but I love today. Everything about it. I especially love how Ryle looks, leaning against my car, watching me."You're really beautiful when you're happy."


"How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing."


"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."


"I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty."


"It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on."


"Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used."


"In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded - self-confident. Something she wasn't."


"Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy."


"Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore."


"There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street."


"A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends."


"I don't doubt the sincerity of my Democratic friends. And they should not doubt ours."


"Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You will learn."


"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."


"I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother."



"I've had the same friends for ten, fifteen years."


"Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show."


"After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there."


"When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?"


"Your friendship is our honour; your dreams are our duty. India's capacity may be limited, but our commitment is without limits. Our resources may be modest, but our will is boundless."


"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies."


"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."


"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."


"Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret."


"Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die."


"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"


"Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant."


"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."


"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention."


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


"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."


"A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice."


"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."


"And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty."


"HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues."


"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."


"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."


"Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write."


"My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time."


"Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies."


"When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to."


"A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets."
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