Risking Friendship Quotes

If I had a nickel for every time I heard the words 'I don't want to ruin our friendship ' I wouldn't be driving a car with an ominously flashing 'check engine' light. ~ Molly Harper

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. ~ Mark Twain

When I heard of the shady tactics of the Moonies, my initial indignation was modified by empathy. I remembered only too well all the innocuous-sounding "fronts" operated by Evangelicals in order to witness to sinners, e.g., coffee houses, concerts, philosophical forums, religious surveys. None of these was ever billed for what it was. The idea was to hook the unsuspecting sinner and win an opportunity to tell him the gospel. Similar Machiavellian tactics govern various interpersonal contacts. A campus leader or foreign student may find himself the object of an Evangelical's friendly attention, not realizing he has been singled out for "friendship evangelism" because of his potentially strategic position. ~ Robert M. Price

Tarrou had "lost the match," as he put it. But what had he, Rieux, won? No more than the experience of having known plague and remembering it, of having known friendship and remembering it, of knowing affection and being destined one day to remember it. So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have called that winning the match. ~ Albert Camus

Friendship is like an investment; the best type yields the best profit for you! It's not just about making friends; it's about making right friends for the right reasons! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job. ~ George Thorogood

What a relief. I didn't have to check the toilet for anything or the light bulbs or the phone. It was just good old-fashioned friendship. ~ Julia Roberts

[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I think it was wrong. ~ William J. Clinton

But it's not easy, because friendship is absent-minded or at least powerless. It cannot achieve what it wants. Perhaps, after all, it doesn't want strongly enough. Perhaps we do not love life enough. ~ Albert Camus

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends. ~ David Brooks

I'll put it on my table where I keep my drawings, Hassan said.
His saying that made me kind of sad. Sad for who Hassan was, where he lived. For how he'd accepted the fact that he'd grow old in that mud shack in the yard, the way his father had. ~ Khaled Hosseini

Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love. ~ Lauren Kate

If your dog, your best friend turns on you, take a good look at yourself. You may have a serious personality disorder. ~ Will Leamon

He was everything I needed because his entire character had been molded by my deepest wants and desires. He was my rock when I cried, my playmate when I laughed, and my hero when I needed to imagine that one existed for me. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of. ~ C.S. Lewis

What's missing in my life?' I was going to say Everything, but corrected myself. 'Friends - the way everyone seems to be fast friends in this place - I wish I had friends like yours, like you. ~ Andre Aciman

Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We all need Friendship, never forget that our most luck comes because of others. ~ Jan Jansen

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who's late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day. ~ Jess C. Scott

Friendship needs no words. ~ Dag Hammarskjold

At least we've still got each other.' Daniel squeezes my hand. I hadn't noticed he was holding it. 'We'll never be parted.'

'If you won't ever forsake me,' I say, comforted a little by realizing I can still remember Greet's stories, 'I won't forsake you. ~ Eliza Granville

Agreement in likes and dislikes- this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship. ~ Catiline

Friendship is something whose depth fits human aspirations and fulfills human possibilities. It has heft to it, as a gold-piece does and a gambling chip does not. ~ Eugene Kennedy

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover ~ Joseph Addison

When I'm sad, she comes to me with a thousand smiles. ~ Jimi Hendrix

And perhaps, if the adults here and around the world got it right, she'd never know anything but friendship and family and hope. Not war. Not racial discord. Not anger and distrust. ~ Nalini Singh

She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable.She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar feelings, but she did not try to share these thoughts with Rachel. ~ Denny Taylor

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility. ~ E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

He that wrongs his friend, wrongs himself more. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Find people who can handle your darkest truths, who don't change the subject when you share your pain, or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle, some of us more than others, and that there's no weakness in admitting it. Find people who want to be real, however that looks and feels, and who want you to be real, too. Find people who get that life is hard, and who get that life is also beautiful, and who aren't afraid to honor both of those realities. Find people who help you feel more at home in your heart, mind and body, and who take joy in your joy. Find people who love you, for real, and who accept you, for real. Just as you are. They're out there, these people. Your tribe is waiting for you. Don't stop searching until you find them. ~ Scott Stabile

A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me ... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

Friendship is not so easy: it's long and hard to win, but when it's there, you can't get rid of it, you have to made do ~ Albert Camus

What Caul liked most about Tom was his kindness. Kindness was not valued back in Grimsby, where the older boys were encouraged to torment the younger ones, who would grow up to torment another batch of youngsters in their turn. "Good practice for life," Uncle said. "Hard knocks, that's all the world's about!" But maybe Uncle had never met anyone like Tom, who was kind to other people and seemed to expect nothing more than kindness in return. ~ Philip Reeve

That Stage in Friendship when you can start Insulting them. ~ Tracey Becker

Life and I became friends some years ago - not the sort of exciting friendship I longed for as a child, but a kindly truce, a pleasure in coming home every day to my apartment. I have a moment now and then - as I peel an orange and take it from kitchen counter to table - when I feel almost a pang of contentment, perhaps at that raw colour. ~ Elizabeth Kostova

I don't care too much about talking, but I don't like being alone. ~ Ida Lokas

Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they've recommended to you. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Fighting with your best friend is NO fun. ~ Paula Danziger

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there. ~ Francis De Sales

To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality. ~ John Tibbetts