friendship

"One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson."

"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation."

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."

"I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years."

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."

"If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?"

"For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

"I want to know what it is to build the foundation of the friendship for real, to have my best friend and not because we're just intimate, but because we're mentally intimate. So I'm waiting for that person to come into my life."

"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."

"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."

"If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love."

"In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship."

"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."