You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls. - J R R Tolkien I couldn't tell you how I felt before talking to Ava, and I felt like I couldn't talk to Ava until she got back. But then last night, there you where, and you looked so beautiful, and I couldn't stop myself anymore. But I shouldn't have done it, I should have stopped it, I should have put you first. I was trying to do the right thing, but all I did was fuck everything up. With you, with Ava, with your friendship.. - Lauren Barnholdt Keep your friendships in repair. - Ralph Waldo Emerson In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A g...

Life is nothing without friendship. - Quintus Tullius Cicero Life is nothing without friendship. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf[.] - J R R Tolkien True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. - Mortimer Adler Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. - Aristotle Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. - Aristotle They took their meals together; and it was remark...

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? - Eugene Kennedy The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you. - John Marsden Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship. - Bill Watterson People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. - Lisa See

You're weird," Nick grumbled, but he turned his face back to critically examine the new hand. "You're weird," Jamie returned. "As soon as this whole magical war is over, I'm going to make us some friendship bracelets, and we will wear them everywhere because we are best friends." "Drop dead," said Nick, and Jamie looked serenely pleased. - Sarah Rees Brennan There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved. - Donald Johanson My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. - Stephanie Tubbs Jones

All losses are sad. The end of an important relationship is also a death. When people fall out of love with each other, or when what seemed like a solid friendship falls into ruin, the hope for a shared future--a hope that provided a context and a purpose to life--is gone. [p. 149] - Sylvia Boorstein I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship. - Joseph Conrad To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. - Sallust

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. - Jonathan Edwards It must not be forgotten that reason too needs to be sustained in all its searching by trusting dialogue and sincere friendship. A climate of suspicion and distrust, which can beset speculative research, ignores the teaching of the ancient philosophers who proposed friendship as one of the most appropriate contexts for sound philosophical enquiry. - Pope John Paul Ii

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America. - Isabel Lucas Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. - Austin Omalley

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls. - J R R Tolkien After awhile, all the men wanted his opinion, and all the girls were in love with him. He made certain of it. Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong. He changed all that. - Sarah Addison Allen Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong. - Sarah Addison Allen Livia, you're too kind. I'll take this breakfast as a token of our friendshipthank youbut do you ever do anything just for yourself?" Blake lifted the sandwich and waited for her answe...

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. - Bradley Chicho Dear Torina, I can't face the idea of sacrificing you to this danger. You must stay alive." He caressed her cheek. "Hear me," he went on. "Even if you feel only friendship, Torina, I've loved you since the day you helped me to my feet. I tried so hard to stop. Then I thought you were dead, and my life hurt every day. - Victoria Hanley

The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose. - Ann Brashares When we changed the channel from violent television to tamer fare, kids just ended up learning the advanced skills of clique formation, friendship withdrawal, and the art of the insult. - Po Bronson Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty. - Mason Cooley I'll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. - Matt Groening Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards were right. - Marian Keyes their relationship was built on friendship, ...

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. - Carol Alt There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret. - Alexandre Dumas Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. - Henry Ward Beecher There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. - Samuel Johnson There is no friendship possible between men and women. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Gyles Brandreth There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. - Chanakya No friendship is an accident. - O Henry

Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family. - Trey Anastasio I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show. - Candace Cameron Bure One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson. - Dan Fouts For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do. - John Frusciante I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friends...

When I was young I asked more of people than they could give: everlasting friendship, endless feeling. Now I know to ask less of them than they can give: a straightforward companionship. And their feelings, their friendship, their generous actions seem in my eyes to be wholly miraculous: a consequence of grace alone. - Albert Camus I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge. - Kurt Busch I just think that I screwed up what could have turned into a more significant relationship, or at least a lasting friendship. - Emily Giffin I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. - Paul Getty A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. - Markus Zusak Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship...

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship. - Quintus Tullius Cicero The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless. - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family. - Trey Anastasio Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. - Thomas Jefferson Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none. - Thomas Jefferson I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them. - Saint Augustine Of Hippo...

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. - Marcus Tullius Cicero It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. - Charles Kingsley Every person comes with a place. It can be a house, a park, a building. When you meet someone, you are unknowingly meeting a place, a two-for-one deal that neither party is really aware of yet. Regular Joe's is Marcus' place. Mine is the library, second floor, nonfiction, the table between the Poker aisle and European History. Two-thousand days of friendship means that we share. - Chloe Rattray

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them. - Mark Twain The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. - Mark Twain Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. - Mortimer Adler Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. - Muhammad Ali Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. - Namie Amuro Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the fol...

This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You'd think it would be less painful this way. - Cat Clarke I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture. - David Levithan

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. - Joseph Addison Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don't want to lose them. But I feel like I have already. - Veronica Roth I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to friendship and ideas. The ancient society, the Old England of New England, Massachusetts for me. - Amos Bronson Alcott That, they knew, was true friendship. And they knew, if you're lucky enough to find it, you hold on to it. - Sarah Addison Allen A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when...