Quotes About Friendship

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

Almost under his breath he said, "First threatenings an' now bribery. Bribery as I'm alive! Money for Judas, I reckon they'm thinking. Stand up in a court o' law agin an old friend. Worse'n Judas, for he did it on the quiet, like. An' for what? Thirty bits o' silver. An' I'm reckoning they wouldn't

Ross said quietly: 'Yes, I could sleep with you.' She smiled at him. He said: 'And for the same reasons will not.' 'Thank you, Captain.' He said: 'You've always been my firm friend – from so long ago. Almost before we knew each other well at all.' 'I believe I fancied you from the beginning.' 'I believe it was something more important than that, even then.

These days I often have a struggle not to feel inferior to you, that is in your judgment of human beings.' 'I don't think I have any judgment, at least not to be proud of. But perhaps I am nearer the earth than you. Like Garrick, I can smell a friend.

Perchè se lei non riusciva ad abbandonare un amico, nemmeno lui poteva farlo.

It's you and me," she said, "in our own house. Nothing between us—no interruption. Maybe it's because I'm just of common stock, but I want the home about me: candles burning, curtains drawn, warmth, tea, friendship, love. Those are what matter to me. This morning—even a few hours ago—I thought it was all gone forever.

Bubba was my best good friend. And even I know that ain't something you can find just around the corner.

Jenny and I were like peas and carrots.

You treat everybody like they are your friend. It ain't that way in the world, Forrest. A lot of people ain't your friend. They are just lookin at you the way a banker looks at somebody comes in for a loan—How I'm gonna fleece this rube? That's the way it is, Forrest. That's the way it is.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

There had been many signs during the Conference that the Soviet Government sincerely desired permanent friendship with Britain and the United States.

the sharpest political differences are sometimes found not incompatible with personal friendship.

I do not propose to recount the Homeric struggles of the 'friendlies.' Little in them is worthy of remembrance; much seeks oblivion.

How much easier it is to join bad companions than to shake them off!

One always measures friendship by how they show up in bad weather.

Yo estaba acostumbrado desde hacia ya mucho tiempo a escribir todas mis notas con tinta encarnada; Fisher empleaba corrientemente un lápiz verde. Cito sus palabras: «Eran las luces de babor y estribor». En tanto estas brillaran juntas, todo iría bien. Habíamos montado una combinación, que en tanto subsistiera, no podía ser vencida ni por intrigas interiores ni por el enemigo en el mar.

our common dangers and common loyalties have wiped all that out. The fire of war has burnt up the misunderstandings of the past. We feel we have a friend whom we can trust, and I hope he will continue to feel the same about us. I pray he may live to see his beloved Russia not only glorious in war, but also happy in peace.

Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field

Every war decision must be forced to a clear-cut issue, and no thought of personal friendship or political unity can find any place in such a process. The soldiers who are ordered to their deaths have a right to a plan, as well as a cause.

Great Britain and the United States all one? Yes, I am all for that, and you mean me to run for President?

Never be separated from the Americans.

There is different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

The world would rather see hope than just hear its song. And that's why statesman have to smile. Their pearly whites mean they're still full of cheer. The game's complex, the goal's far out of reach, the outcome's still unclear--once in a while, we need a friendly, gleaming set of teeth.