Quotes of: Love-and-friendship Keyword

I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn't be where I am if I hadn't.

Sasha Grey

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

Dinaw Mengestu

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

The 4-Hour Workweek

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

The Astral

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

Insurgent

All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.

Kissing Kate

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Safe Haven

There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some. But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship?

A Seductive Kiss

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

Magician's Gambit

Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

And this was the end of my first friendship with one of that innumerable company of people who are foreigners in their own country, but who are in reality its finest sons....

My Childhood

Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men.

The Silmarillion

Because friendship is about laughing when the other person is joking to make you feel better. Even if you don’t find her joke all that funny.

A Time to Dance

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.

The Other Side of the Story

For the secret of friendship is a mutual admiration, and it is the realization or suspicion that that admiration is lessening on one side or the other that swiftly breaks the charm.

The Radical Will: Selected Writings 1911-1918

To give a tangerine is a Chinese New Year's Tradition. Stems are left on to keep friendship intact.

Very California: Travels Through the Golden State

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.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

From the Twitter responses we got with 'Best Friends Forever' and the small feedback we are getting as the show is meted out, I think people are seeing themselves in the show and enjoying seeing female friendship portrayed in the way it really is.

Lennon Parham

There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin