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Friendship Quotes


"I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die."


"I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'"


"I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen."


"No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods."


"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."


"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."


"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."


"I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am."


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


"But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac."



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


"The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many."


"I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country."


"If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me."


"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."


"I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with."


"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."


"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."


"I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example."


"I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case."


"My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day."



"Sage. He laughed. "I'm into anything, so long as you're with me."


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


"My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair."


"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."


"For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do."


"When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better."


"I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse."


"Friends might share clothes and chocolate, but they must share books. Just like you share the same stars, share the same books and you'll never be apart."


"My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?"


"That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out and play with my imaginary friends. In terms of Isaac, when the time's right."


"Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing."


"A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have."


"No man is useless while he has a friend."


"I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together."


"I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends."


"Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it."


"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."


"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."


"I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal."


"We get along like a house on fire these days."


"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."


"Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other."


"I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read."


"I give and accept waves of welcome. I attract wonderful, life-minded friends who enrich my life."



"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."



"We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp."


"If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words."


"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."
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