429 private quotes tagged friendship

“Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.”— Charles de Montesquieu

“I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.”— Harvey Weinstein

“I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.”— Neale Donald Walsch

“The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.”— Jose Ramos-Horta

“Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.”— Jonathan Edwards

“I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.”— Paul Simon

“Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?”— Anna Freud

“The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.”— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.”— Eustace Budgell

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”— Oliver Goldsmith

“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship.”— Sydney Smith

“Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.”— Robert Blair

“Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.”— Kenneth Branagh

“The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.”— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.”— Jane Campion

“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.”— Charles Eastman

“When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.”— Marlo Thomas

“Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.”— Robert Staughton Lynd

“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.”— Brooks Adams

“If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.”— Victoria Justice

“The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.”— Sophie Swetchine

“Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.”— Charles de Lint

“Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.”— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.”— Jasmine Guy

“The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.”— William Shenstone