Quotes About Friendship

Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

Loners can play well with others-the right others

In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.

Es wäre natürlich ganz und gar verfehlt, das aufzuschreiben, worüber Margot und ich halbe Tage und Nächte lang reden, so intensiv und ehrlich von beiden Seiten, dass man sich fast um Kopf und Kragen redet. (Brief an Klaus Mann, 23. Juli 1940)

Amazing how shared laughter could sweeten life, make it seem worth living.

bottom of the sea," whispered Ivy. Bean

Annie Barrows

Five million girls in pink Girl Power 4-Ever shirts were squirming around outside the Youth Center, waiting for camp to begin. They hugged each other and squealed. They showed each other their cell phones. They sang. They danced. They giggled. They were all bouncy and happy and busy.

good—forever," said Ivy. She had come up behind Crummy Matt, and now she stood next to Bean. "She'll never do

I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.

Whether it is the forming of a group of friends or a pod at work—or hiring for diversity of viewpoint and tolerance for dissent when you are able to guide an enterprise's culture toward accuracy—we should guard against gravitating toward clones of ourselves. We should also recognize that it's really hard: the norm is toward homogeneity; we're all guilty of it; and we don't even notice that we're doing it.

Marie-Claude m'a appelée. Jean-Yves est mort vendredi dernier. Il m'arrive de penser que nous sommes mystérieusement liés aux êtres et que leur disparition produit des « ondes ». Vendredi, ce jour où j'ai été si mal, où tout a paru me manquer, a été le jour de la mort de J.-Yves. Je ne l'ai jamais revu depuis juillet 63. Il m'avait confié : « Je n'ai pas d'ami. »

Ni Annie M. ni Frédérique L. ne m'ont parlé de mon amour « russe » au téléphone et ce silence est pour moi comme le signe qu'elles savent que cette histoire est finie (bien qu'objectivement je ne voie pas comment elles pourraient savoir).

We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.

Some people are friends, others are people you are forced to hang out with.

She rejoins the crowd and watches with her friends, but she feels like an emptied glass - that crestfallen feeling of walking out from a movie theatre in the middle of the day, out from the intimate matinée darkness and the smell of popcorn, which is the smell of heightened colour and sound and story, into the borderless bright of day. Bereft.

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you saying "boy was that fun."

You are such a good friend that if we were on a sinking ship together and there was only one life jacket. . . I'd miss you heaps and think of you often.

They come as a boon and a blessing to men, The Pickwick, the Owl, and the Waverley pen.

I have friends who ended up playing professionally in the Middle East and Europe.

People expect because it is called 'Friends' that everyone was great friends, but they were real professionals.

John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.