A real businessman value his partners like friends and his partnership like friendship.

One of the things that kept our marriage intact was community. Friends who spurred us on to finish strong together. And it’s friends who esteem marriage that will do this; not people who belittle it...

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community’s or your friends’ approval.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you’re doing good. If you can find even one person you really like,...

On page 605, Blumenthal says that ‘I made friends with Hitchens’s friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.’ True in its way. I particularly remember the occasion when he called me up and invited...

Usiwapoteze marafiki zako wa mwanzo kwa sababu ya ujinga wako, wala usiwaache marafiki zako wa mwanzo kwa sababu ya ujinga wao.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hourTrue friends are like stars, you don’t always see them but they are always there.

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself...

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all; you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient; don’t rush...

I’m not good at having friends. I mean, I can make myself useful to people. I can fit in. I get invited to parties and I can sit at any table I want in the...

Friends are not a number. You can’t collect connections. You can’t just go out one day and be like, “Hey, I need some friends!” *goes shopping, scours social media*

LAST YEAR, Honesty and I still talked, Laughed, Planned weekend activities together. Last year, I used to have friends, Speak, Live. Last year, Honesty lived, Loved, Laughed. But now— Now I live with the knowledge...

And then there’s that person that no matter what, they’ll answer your call at 4 am. Your 4am-er. They’ll say exactly what you need to hear to bring you back to earth. Your comfort, your...

My old friend, what are you looking for?After years abroad you’ve come backwith images you’ve nourishedunder foreign skiesfar from you own country.’‘I’m looking for my old garden;the trees come to my waistand the hills resemble...

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends.

The friends who would forsake you for choosing to live a positive life, would also leave you if you find yourself going through some painful consequences due to some negative decisions and actions.

I didn’t have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.

You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Then there are the simple things. The way she fits against my side when we’re sitting together. How she can silence my addled thoughts with one look. The sound of my name from her lips....

That wasn’t Josh Hartnett; that kid was eighteen years old,” Kate said.I told you, they age slower out here. It’s all the fresh California air,” Val replied.Yes, because that’s exactly what Los Angeles is known...

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one...

I ain’t got no money, I ain’t got no car to take you on a date, I can’t even buy you flowers, but together we’ll be the perfect friend.

I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching–they are your family.

Value supported family and friends.

I have a few celebrity friends, but I’m really not into the whole Hollywood scene. I like to separate myself from my work. It stresses me out if I do too much of the same.

I never said you were my friend. I just didn’t have the guts to tell you to leave.

I prefer friends who walks with me in the shade – because friends, who constantly splendor in the glow of the flash of photographers, and sometimes accompany me – at every turn in times of...

here’s the thing about friends, I mean REAL friends: You can’t just put up a poster at school and advertise for somebody and then hope you find the perfect one. It might work, I guess,...

Anytime I mentioned I wanted to be an actress, my friends were not that supportive.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don’t speak. It’s a bummer. I miss her.

I think I’ve always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to...

I have really good instincts about friends.

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

When I was younger, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta’s daughter in...

Yes, I’m Catholic; I’m proud of it. But I had lots of Protestant friends.

I’ll put you in a jar on my shelf for a cold, rainy day when I need you the most. 

I wanted to talk to someone. But who? It’s moments like this, when you need someone the most, that your world seems smallest.

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn’t write a novel,...

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that’s not important. What’s important is that through it all you learn how much you need...

I smile. I smile all the time, but you’re just not around to see it these days”.

Caitlyn (telling a story of her friend): So. [She] grew up and left Neverland for the distant planet called College…And made a bunch of new friends. So. There was the one guy who was there...

A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.