Quotes about Friendship

“There's such a connection between Vietnam and America, but it should be one of friendship. Not bitterness. Not enemies.”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

“I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.”

“Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.”

“Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.”

“I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.”

“I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.”

“And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.”

“Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.”

“When I was growing up, I thought everything was a life of friendship, respect, and sharing. But I discovered that unfortunately, you have people who aren't behaving in the same way but have hatred.”

“I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.”

“When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.”

“I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.”

“What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?”

“America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.”

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

“Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.”

“Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.”

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.”