Friendship Quotes (5038 Quotes)

Once again, the humanitarian community is mourning a friend and colleague who died trying to help others in a place that has already seen far too much sadness and violence.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Bruce has been a good friend, a good companion and we've been a good team. He's also got a great sense of humor.

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

President Bush is as interested as I am in having the greatest possible number of countries contributing valuably to the reconstruction of the area, each of us with our own responsibilities. ... I don't think that arrogance is the best companion.

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

I remember one game we played and the team was pressing us and I had him bringing the ball up the court. A fellow coach, a friend of mine called me and said, 'Either you're a genius or you're crazy. How do you have a 6-10 freshman bringing the ball up the court Don't you realize that every NBA team will see that

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Only Love Can Break Your HeartSummer, youre unwelcome in my room,leave me be, overwhelmed by grief. Drunk on whiskey from The Pharaohs Tomb Im weak as a pacifist, Im eaten alive by jealousy, only god knows why. Just like only god knows why Alan said coming out is fab and brilllike falling in love.Summer, be gone Alans gone. Family and friends are gone. Neil Young is right Only love can break your heart.My heart is unmendable. I am forever in my room, heartbroken, and nobody is there, forever spending my days killing time until time kills me.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.

We will stand by Iraq when times are tough and we will be a committed friend, not a fair-weather friend,

You know, people want someone to tell them the answer, ... They want a friend, or a teacher, or a parent - but above all I guess they just want to know. And the truth is you can't tell them, and that's a hard thing to deal with. And it's easy to get wrapped up in the idea that this person knows - that he will tell me what I need to know, what I need to live - because he means a lot to me.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

Honor that is a friend begets a friend.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

even a friend can be fired for taking the advice of experts.

The Name of the Lord is the companion of my breath of life, without it, I cannot live for an instant or a moment.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.

Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt.. that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.

He's a close associate of Tom DeLay. I don't think a friend of Tom DeLay is a friend to the 21st Congressional District.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

One of the best things we can do for ourselves and for our detained friends is to keep doing our work.

We hate leaving the people down here. We've made some friends.

Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.

Unfortunately, I am unable to join you this weekend, as I prayerfully prepare with my family, friends and advisers to finalize the strategy for a major announcement next week concerning my candidacy for the U. S. Senate. I will continue to look to our Founding Fathers, who pursued their vision with integrity and perseverance, to discern the best course of action for the state of Florida and our nation.

The women in that organization became her best friends. She found that there was a great amount of caring among them. They did a lot of great work for the community.

A chaplain is trained to talk to anybody of any faith, not to become the patient's minister. My own religion doesn't need to enter the conversation. I'm there as a friend I'm there for the patient.

We are here to help a friend in need. We'll worry about the popularity contest later.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

TORTOISE, n. A creature thoughtfully created to supply occasion for the following lines by the illustrious Ambat Delaso: TO MY PET TORTOISE. My friend, you are not graceful --not at all Your gait's between a stagger and a sprawl. Nor are you beautiful your head's a snake's To look at, and I do not doubt it aches. As to your feet, they'd make an angel weep.'Tis true you take them in whene'er you sleep. No, you're not pretty, but you have, I own, A certain firmness --mostly you're sic backbone. Firmness and strength (you have a giant's thews) Are virtues that the great know how to use --I wish that they did not yet, on the whole, You lack --excuse my mentioning it --Soul. So, to be candid, unreserved and true, I'd rather you were I than I were you. Perhaps, however, in a time to be, When Man's extinct, a better world may see Your progeny in power and control, Due to the genesis and growth of Soul. So I salute you as a reptile grand Predestined to regenerate the land. Father of Possibilities, O deign To accept the homage of a dying reign; In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne. I see an Emperor his head withdraw Into his carapace for fear of Law; A King who carries something else than fat, Howe'er acceptably he carries thatA President not strenuously bent On punishment of audible dissent --Who never shot (it were a vain attack) An armed or unarmed tortoise in the backSubject and citizens that feel no need To make the March of Mind a wild stampedeAll progress slow, contemplative, sedate, And Take your time the word, in Church and State. O Tortoise, 'tis a happy, happy dream, My glorious testudinous regimeI wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out.

My love, you know you are my best friend. You know that I'd do anything for you And my love, let nothing come between us. My love for you is strong and true.

I've made a lot of friends. The Garber people expect a lot more than the Billings people. We have a better chance to win here. We have more athletes. There's a lot more competition.

Jonathan and I have known each other for years, ... We're good friends, and I think it works out well.

I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

And I would have, now love is over, An end to all, an end I cannot, having been your lover Stoop to become your friend.

These phones can be used by domestic violence victims to stay in touch with their family, friends, make doctors appointments, stay in touch with the family justice center and even reach out to potential employers. Basically, everything they need to do to get their lives back on track.

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today.

Despite my living in Virginia, we saw a great deal of each other and supported each other through our respective separations and divorces. None of our circle of friends can understand this.

It is hard to believe that Kay is no longer among us. But in a way, she will never leave us. Her place in this country will not be filled, nor the void her death leaves on the lives of her friends,

I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a friend to recommend them to the notice of the world.

I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive.

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.

As we apply the final touches to the policy driven reforms of this legislation, I am grateful that my friend, Jim Gardner could come to Washington and testify as to the real world experiences in my hometown.

In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.

Then again, a lot of times if that were to happen to someone that person may not even know about it. Not unless a friend or some one told them.