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Quotes About Friendship

You cannot be my friend and use the N- word around me. I feel strongly about it… I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
~ Oprah Winfrey
anyone will ride in a limo but a true friend will ride the bus when the limo breaks down
~ Oprah Winfrey
To know that people care about how you're doing when the doing isn't so good, that's what love is.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Hurtful words send the message—both to ourselves and to those with whom we share them—that we can't be trusted. If someone is willing to tear down one "friend," why wouldn't she be willing to disparage another? Gossip means we haven't emboldened ourselves to talk directly to the people we take issue with, so we belittle them. Playwright Jules Feiffer calls it committing little murders: Gossip is an assassination attempt by a coward.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I love how they got in the RV and did it for their dog. (The Gayle King Show, May 2010)
~ Oprah Winfrey
Ketika hidup sedang memperlakukan Anda dengan baik dan sepertinya Anda tidak bisa salah langkah, selalu akan ada orang-orang yang ingin menumpang di limosin Anda. Tetapi yang benar-benar Anda inginkan adalah orang-orang yang bersedia naik bus bersama Anda ketika limosin sedang mogok.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes I feel like Gayle is the better part of myself—the part that says "No matter what, I'm here for you." What I know for sure is that Gayle is a friend I can count on. She has taught me the joy of having, and being, a true friend.
~ Oprah Winfrey
every person has a star, every star has a friend, and for every person carrying a star there is someone else who reflects it, and everyone carries this reflection like a secret confidante in the heart.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Çok hata ettim, ona hava att?m, onunla arkadaÅŸ olamad?m," dedi Süleyman. "Ama o da çok sivri dilliydi. Kimse, k?zlarla nas?l konuÅŸulur, bu zor iÅŸin s?rr?n? bize öÄŸretmedi. Bir erkekle konuÅŸur gibi, ama hiç küfür etmeden konuÅŸuyordum. Olmad?
~ Orhan Pamuk
A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent´t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he´d still be the loneliest man on earth.
~ Orhan Pamuk
every person had a star, every star had a friend, and for every person carrying a star there was someone else who reflected it, and everyone carried this reflection as a secret confidant in his heart.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Your highest ideal, the vision of your life work which you long to make real, is your best friend. Keep as close to it as you can, stick to it, and it will lead you to your goal.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I rave no more 'gainst Time or Fate, For lo, my own shall come to me. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me. What matter if I stand alone? I wait with joy the coming years; My heart shall reap where it hath sown, What is mine shall know my face. Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high Can keep my own away from me.
~ Orison Swett Marden
books. They are friends to the lonely, companions to the deserted, joy to the joyless, hope to the hopeless, good cheer to the disheartened, a helper to the helpless. They bring light into darkness, and sunshine into shadow.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Don't run about and tell acquaintances that you have been unfortunate; people do not like to have unfortunate men for acquaintances.
~ Orison Swett Marden
I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.
~ Orson Scott Card
Be proud, Bonito, pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up Ender Wiggin, who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone--Ender Wiggin is so dangerous and terrifying it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.
~ Orson Scott Card
Dona Crista laughed a bit. Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice. I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.
~ Orson Scott Card
Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you. The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young. ... The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all.
~ Orson Scott Card
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
~ Orson Scott Card
Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
~ Orson Scott Card
Thanks from keeping me from being a liar, said Nikolai. What? About your having diarrhea. For you I'd get dysentery. Now that's friendship.
~ Orson Scott Card
He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.
~ Orson Scott Card