Quotes About Friendship

That's the whole reason we're here, isn't it?" she persists. "Not to swim in their pool, and sleep in their beds, and eat their Tater Tots. Who invented those things, anyway? Pure starch and oil!" "Hey," I shoot back, "you can talk trash about me, but lay off my Tater Tots!

If it wasn't for Randy, I never would have taken the bike ride that turned into my first run-in with Serenity's invisible barrier. That was a horrible experience, but I'm grateful for it now. Without it, I might never have stumbled on the truth about Project Osiris. We could all still be lab rats in the experiment.

Through the years I came to realize that some of the most important insights I gained about myself came not from my friends but from my critics who, while playing rough, nevertheless alerted me to blind spots and inadequacies no one else had the courage to tell me about.

Carl Jung explained that we tend to attack in others what we are most uncomfortable with in ourselves. When vulnerability is the enemy, it is attacked wherever it is perceived, even in a best friend.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

For a man to successful, not only must he succeed but his friends must also fail.

When a friend succeeds a little something inside me dies.

He now new a number of people but none well. It was easier to have sex with a man than to acquire a friend.

For two nights running he had slept in his clothes on the floor of my bedroom at the Golden Eagle; nor had I tried to move him. I knew from experience that when Luther Martin decided to sleep on the floor (or in a cupboard—he was unnaturally partial to cupboards), it was pointless to protest.

At first Madison was shy but Mrs. Todd soon warmed him up, filled his glass again and again with my best claret.

Whenever I see her, we laugh enough to last for the month. She's my best friend, and someday when we're old enough I'm going to talk her into staying here forever.

She's my friend, the boy said simply. That's who she is and that's enough for me. As Minli looked at the buffalo boy, aglow with happiness against his poor surroundings, she saw it was enough for him. More than enough, as the smile that kept curling up on his face told her.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.

No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.

What they had both thought was safety proved to have been the camouflage of an enemy who works in terms of friendship, trust and pity.

friendship cannot stand humiliation.

Think how complicated life would be if I had kept in touch with all the men I have known intimately. Some died, some I left, a few have left me. If they were all with me now we would have to take over a whole wing of the Royal Albion. I

it is almost as though someone in those vast spaces is trying to communicate a message of good will, for even the names of the stars are friendly. Venus is any woman we love, the Bears are the bears of childhood

There were men who lived voluntarily in deserts, but they had their God to commune with. For nearly ten years he had felt no need of friends - one woman could include any number of friends.

It was as if she were accumulating evidence that she had friends like other people.

It was typical of Dr Hasselbacher that after fifteen years of friendship he still used the prefix Mr—friendship proceeded with the slowness and assurance of a careful diagnosis. On Wormold's death-bed, when Dr Hasselbacher came to feel his failing pulse, he would perhaps become Jim.

I have no trouble with my enemies, Miss Vivar. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my so-called allies, my damned allies, they're the ones who keep me walking the floors at night. - Warmaster Horus