Quotes About Friendship

Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

spinning playback head n. the disorienting feeling of meeting back up with an old friend and realizing that you've become different people on divergent paths-that even though they're standing right in front of you, the person you once knew isn't really there anymore.

So I've got a new friend I wish I could forget you But I miss you, wanna kiss you again She's like you, but she's not you, gotta find you again

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

What was so tough, you had to get all worked up over them? He didn't get it. You just did your job, you were faithful to your wife, you stuck by your friends. That was it.

J. M. Barrie founded a celebrity cricket team with Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, Rudyard Kipling and P. G. Wodehouse.

No peace and security among mankind—let alone common friendship—can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.

In misery it is great comfort to have a companion.

It is the attendance at a great meal, with one too many courses and two too many glasses of wine, that makes civilization spin, romance bloom and friendship last.

I believe that sociable technology will always disappoint because it promises what it can't deliver," Turkle writes. "It promises friendship but can only deliver 'performances.' Do we really want to be in the business of manufacturing friends that will never be friends?

Let's go home,' Homer said, 'to Hell.

I remember Robyn saying once 'Talking about yourself can be selfish or generous'. When I asked what she meant, she said: 'If you never talk about yourself, about your problems and stuff, that's selfish, because you're not giving your friends a chance to help you. And if you talk about yourself all the time, you're selfish and boring.

There's life in his face again. It occurs to me that this is the best thing I could have done, it's actually a great way to leave, because it's giving Gavin the message that we haven't been defeated, we are up for it, we're young, we're in control of our lives again, we can charge into the future with confidence. When we round the corner of the driveway I take his hand and we run down to the gate together.

No, that's being too logical! You're my best friends! I don't want to be that logical!" Neither did I, when I thought about it. "Ok, then" I said. "All for one and one for all. Let's go. The three musketeers.

Als je nooit over jezelf praat, over wat je dwarszit en zo, dan is dat egoïstisch, omdat je je vrienden geen kans geeft om te helpen.

Do you think Lee's all right?' 'I'm praying my ass off.' At that moment came the happiest sight I'd ever seen. A thin hand appeared out of the shovel, made a V sign or a peace sign-it was hard to tell in the dimness-and disappeared again.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

Now God deliver me from my friends!

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

Later in life, Holmes wrote to his friend Harold Laski, "Every mitigation

Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.

He felt a keen regret that he had spoken so of Dave Masters, the defiant boy they both had loved, whose ghost had held them, all these years, in a friendship whose depth they had never quite realized.