Quotes About Friendship

I wanted to show that men and women can be friends without having a relationship.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I've always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters.

when you're far away from home and scared shitless you need all the friends you can get and you need them right away.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

If there is no friendship with them and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.

Job's hope will be confirmed by the vision of God: "I myself shall see him."19 Not as an enemy or even a stranger20 but as a friend, someone close to him. Job reaffirms his conviction that he will see God with "his own eyes." This hope causes his heart (literally, his kidney) to burst—that is, it makes him happy in the midst of his trials.

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

Mary Gauthier's great. Yeah, we've played a lot of gigs together. She's really wonderful.

It was Aileron who saw the light blaze in Arthur's face. The Warrior leaped from his horse down into the road and, at the top of his great voice, cried 'Cavall!' Bracing his legs, he opened wide his arms and was knocked flying, nonetheless, by the wild leap of the dog. Over and over they rolled, the dog yelping in intoxicated delight, the Warrior mock growling in his chest. . . . This is' asked Aileron with gentle irony, 'your dog?

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

Catriana sighed. "I'm hard to make friends with," she said at length. "I doubt it's worth your effort.

C'étaient tous deux des hommes taciturnes et discrets. Ils le laissèrent à ses réflexions, gardèrent les leurs par-devers eux, lui offrant leur présence en gage de sécurité et d'amitié, tandis qu'ils arpentaient rues et places.

The two men were still in the habit of taking this last glass together; the depth and endurance of friendship marked as much in their silence as in the words.

Those are the men who will dance at your wedding.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

her affection was warm and solid, the sort of friendship that made no demands, but was simply there, like sunshine.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

I could talk to friends who phoned to see how I was only for a few minutes. However pleased I was to hear from them, soon my voice went flat and I wanted to go back to sleep. It was beyond me how other people could talk so much.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

There is no friendship possible between men and women[...]. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

It is curious how men who are good friends, close friends, true friends, who may have been on the most intimate and familiar terms over any number of years, can nevertheless know next to nothing of one another's love-lives.

Every Holmes must have his Watson