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Friendship Quotes
"If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius."
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"I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today."
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"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?"
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"You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?"
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"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."
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"I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me."
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"Is there any friendship, without forgiveness?"
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"I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun."
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"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."
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"To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow."
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"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other."
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"Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their reason for being is not to replace marriage but to open the possibility of sustained, committed true love existing among friends, and not just same-sex friends. No matter that our chosen relationship commitments change. Those of us who have long-term romantic friendships, some that have lasted longer than any of our marriages or partnerships, do not fear that these commitments will falter if we create primary bonds."
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"And say my glory was I had such friends."
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"I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance."
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"Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me."
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"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
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"Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family."
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"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."
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"He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together."
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"I am touched that you are trying to comprehend me. A friend could not be more loving."
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"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."
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"Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario."
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"At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory."
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"Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends."
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"That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends."
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"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
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"I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends."
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"I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell."
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"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."
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"It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met Edward Said. It was impossible not to be captivated by him: of his many immediately seductive qualities I will start by mentioning a very important one. When he laughed, it was as if he was surrendering unconditionally to some guilty pleasure. At first the very picture of professorial rectitude, with faultless tweeds, cravats, and other accoutrements (the pipe also being to the fore), he would react to a risqué remark, or a disclosure of something vaguely scandalous, as if a whole Trojan horse of mirth had been smuggled into his interior and suddenly disgorged its contents. The build-up, in other words, was worth one's effort."
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"I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years."
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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
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"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
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"One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one."
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"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
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"I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen."
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"The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world."
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"A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower."
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"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
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"And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up."
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"An incinerator is a writer's best friend."
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
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"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back."
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"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
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"We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them."
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"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."
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