Quotes About Friendship

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Asked by a shocked bystander how he could do this, Lincoln said, "Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" This is the power of redemptive love.

I stressed that the use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence' toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding.

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.

To Pussy (1981-1995)

How do I look, Marty?' he would say

Sitting here, with wine and food and surrounded by friends as generations must have done before us in this very place, makes all the world's troubles seem very far away.

May you all return here often to remember that life can be sweet, that women are beautiful and that in the Périgord we never forget our friends." He turned to Moore.

The trend is your friend.

I'm with you until the end of the line.

short laugh. "Time will tell with you and Bobby Pearlman

It was chilling to wake up at forty years of age to find she had no friends, no interests and no investments in anything unconnected to her work.

Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed. She'd heard that a person should count herself blessed to have even one true friend in her life.

We won that war, you know." "So I heard. Nasty business. But we're friends now.

they can come down to your flat for a visit, and, worst of all, all they can talk

She'd hatched into this new world of widowhood and wasn't sure where to turn now for her own personal source of light. Lost without bearings, scrambling madly toward some unseen goal. She no longer trusted her instincts. She didn't know how to be alone. She was afraid to be the solitary swimmer she'd once been. Brett had changed that in her. She needed the companionship of her friends more than ever.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

Ah, this feels just like the old times... I still miss you and the others, you know, and life at school and those times when two or more of us would sit up talking far too late into the night. Which is not to say I would give up my present life to return there, but... Well, even happy choices involve some sacrifice. And most of us, I suppose, would like to both have our cake and eat it if only it were possible

After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.

Their love had developed out of friendship; friendship helped it deepen.

Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more astute sleuth with some even less astute comrade may fill the stage which they have vacated.

Is that Eduardo Lucas of Godolphin Street?" "Yes." "You will not see him." "Why not?" "He was murdered in his house last night." My friend has so often astonished me in the course of our adventures that it was with a sense of exultation that I realized how completely I had astonished him.

If the young lady has a brother or a friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders.

It was one of my friend's most obvious weaknesses that he was impatient with less alert intelligences than his own.