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Friendship Quotes


"I'm still single, but me and Lauren are really really really close friends."


"The waste basket is the writer's best friend."


"If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy."


"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."


"I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me."


"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."


"Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust."


"We would like to have friendly regimes with enough broad participation of their populations to maintain long-term stability, so that we would have not only access to the region's wealth, but we would be able to ensure the security of our good friend Israel."


"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar."


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


"We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it."


"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."


"My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will."


"True friends are like diamonds. They shine for you even on the darkest days."


"Before one day, which will mean the day before today, I just played chess with a friend the strategies were incrediable the moves which I made were wise and I win the two games... This happens in other games also, however today I and two my friends we played football it ended 7 for me and my friend and for the other fried 5-6 somewhere there... We just played football!"


"Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones."


"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."


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


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


"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"


"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."


"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."


"Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults, greater to tell him his."


"I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I'll do it, if I can. You don't have to do this alone.Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn't true. If it could be done, Ender was the one who would have to do it. All those months when Bean refused to see Ender, hid from him, it was because he couldn't bear to face the fact that Ender was what Bean only wished to be - the kind of person on whom you could put all your hopes, who could carry all your fears, and he would not let you down, would not betray you.I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there."


"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."


"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."


"But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood."


"Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?"


"I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next."


"That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of the other."


"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies."


"As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like."



"Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand."


"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means."


"Expose Yourself to True Friendship for It Heals, encourages and lifts you higher."


"No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself."


"The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends."


"Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world."


"You cannot be a friend to someone else, if you do not have a friendship with yourself."


"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."


"The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain."


"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting."


"No one is more beautiful to me than a person who's easy to talk to."


"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."


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