I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
You can’t build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
There is a very thin line between relationship and friendship.
Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Kuwait has been a strong partner to the United States, and the royal family has maintained an enduring and sincere friendship with my family for generations.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another’s little lapses.
There is nothing like mortal fear to galvanize a friendship.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that’s gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
Usually, you don’t have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
The knot of intimacy at the center of ‘Ten Thousand Saints’ is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn’t.
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable – this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what’s happening to the Earth and the like.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.
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.
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.
Russia and China thawed their frosty relationship in the 1990s and signed a friendship treaty in 2001, but China’s rise has increased tensions in every regional relationship.
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you’re opening and cares about you. There’s a real village atmosphere.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
I’m loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
I despise shows that present friendship where you’re always there for each other and really strong because I don’t know anyone like that. I mean, I’ve got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, ‘I just can’t deal with having to give you anything.’
MySpace gives our members the ability to reach such an incredible range of people and have direct contact with them. I’m not sure how that devalues friendship so much as it expands the range of potential friends you can have.
Ultimately, it’s a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.
I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they’re really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
When you’ve known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Love can happen any moment, anywhere, but I am also a person who believes more in friendship than love, relationships, and affairs.
I’ve become close with Masoud Esmaeilpour and consider him a friend. We send each other messages from time to time on Instagram, checking in to see how the other is doing. Whenever I see him, he’s always a gentleman, giving me tips about my next opponent. There is a tremendous amount of respect in our friendship.
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
I have two or three guys that I’m really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It’s hard to start… with new people and cover the ground that I’ve covered with those guys.
The real ‘Lord of the Flies’ is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly; friendship follows fast.
When I met Bjork, I felt like it was a friendship first; it was like an oxygen you get from a person you only can exist with symbiotically. It’s one of the most beautiful relationships I’ve had. She is incredible.
I don’t know if I’ve ever been in a clique. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
I love the Dream Theater guys dearly and have a long history, friendship, and bond that runs incredibly deep with them – it’s just that I think we are in serious need of a little break.
A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can’t do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.
I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that’s where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there’s always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment – we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It’s the opening for friendship.
I’ve got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn’t going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I’ve ever thought I’d have.
Friends are the siblings God never gave us.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
