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Friendship Quotes


"It used to be that when I made mistakes like this or came close to losing my life, I would just call Miguel. He'd drop it all to come to me-his movies, media engagements no matter how big they were, and even his criminal activities went on hold for me. It made me think he cared.Miguel canceled an appearance on the Dave Letterman show just because he called me and thought my voice sounded like something was wrong.He directed his gaze to the bruises decorating my face. 'You said you weren't hurt.With those big arms, he picked me up and slammed the door behind us. 'When I ask you if you're okay, you tell me the truth."


"If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore."


"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."


"All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind."


"Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together."What?"Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud."That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."The people who've been in your secret hiding places."The people you bite your thumb in front of."Hi."Hi."..."..."Wow. My first Lindsey."My second Colin."That was fun. Let's try it again."Sold."..."..."..."..."


"There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone."



"There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends."


"Is there anything better than loyal friend?"


"Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."


"The beauty of friendship is loyalty."



"Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail...they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship."


"What men call friendship is no more than a partnership a mutual care of interests an exchange of favors - in a word it is a sort of traffic in which self - love ever proposes to be the gainer."


"I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective."


"When you find a best friend, you become two flowers blooming from the same bud."


"Friend: A potential enemy with whom relations have not yet deteriorated to all-out war."


"Just friends, she reminded herself. They were only friends, and would only be friends from here on out. It was a friendship that was to be cherished, as she cherished all the friendships she'd made aboard this ship. She wouldn't ruin it by wishing things could be more. She would be grateful for what affection she did have."


"You can't really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can't yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning."



"Men only become friends by community of pleasures."


"For a moment, it was almost as if they were friends again."


"If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple."


"Or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see."


"It doesn't matter when, how old am I and how. When the first robot is build and it can be like a human which will mean can think, and communicate I will go and buy it. Because this will be the best friend ever will have and ever had!"


"Cole gets up and then says, 'Adam. Five texts. I can read them to you. He pauses. 'Unless they're personal. I roll my eyes. 'Not that it's any of your business, but I'm pretty sure he's desperately in love with my sister. Cole snorts. 'He's crazy. 'He'd have to be, right?"


"As my friend, you should either bring me along, or keep me company.""Friend?" he asked.She blushed. "Well, 'scowling escort' is a better description. Or 'reluctant acquaintance', if you prefer."


"There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance."



"Better fare hard with good men than feast with bad."


"The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed-your self."


"And we'll call you...hmmm. Pudge.""Huh?""Pudge," the Colonel said. "Because you're skinny. It's called irony, Pudge. Heard of it? Now, let's go get some cigarettes and start this year off right."


"Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow."


"I get by with a little help from my friends."


"True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost."


"A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship."


"It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides."



"They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked."


"Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you."


"Two people that have the same wants are two people that should be friends."


"Ah how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."



"As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship."


"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me, just be my friend."



"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."


"Never underestimate the value of good friends."


"I'd love to have the kind of friend who would visit me before visiting a man. Otherwise I know where I'm ranked, which is below him."


"Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws."


"The road out there is long, to find the right people is like to find the people which will show how much times you have been right. All people remember when you screw up, but few remember when you are doing the stuff right,... the only thing which can help you is the quotes - so keep reading them!"


"Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room."


"Be careful of the friends you frequently expose your mind to, because they could succeed in realigning the direction of your life."


"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."


"Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo."
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