c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
— Edward Kennedy
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he's a statesman.
— David Lloyd George
Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.
— Rip Torn
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
— Abba Eban
Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.
— Charlie Crist
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
— John Morley
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
— Dick Durbin
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
— Edna Ferber
I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
— Rahul Gandhi
I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.
— Jim Jordan
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
— Spiro T. Agnew
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
— William Gilbert
Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.
— Stephanie Herseth
A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
— Howard Fineman
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
— G. M. Trevelyan
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
— George C. Wallace
I've always loved history, from my youngest memories. My father enjoyed the great stories of history, like Hereward the Wake, Robin Hood, and Richard the Lionheart, and he shared them with me. I went on to do a degree in history, though I found it rather dry, because it was mostly about politics rather than dashing individuals!
— Jo Beverley
The Israelis are very smart about politics and strategy, but there are a few exceptions. One is Lebanon, the other is Gaza, where they were completely inept.
— Daniel Pipes
There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.
— Joseph P. Kennedy III
We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.
— Ann Powers
Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.
— Mark Pryor
I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
— Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
It's a no-win situation with politics it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
— Jordan Peele
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
— Robert Peel
My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
— Jack Johnson
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
— Zell Miller
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
— Charles W. Pickering
One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
— Frank Lautenberg
Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.
— George Stephanopoulos
Politics disappears it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
— Tatyana Tolstaya
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
— Pierre Trudeau
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
— Gilbert Highet
I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
— Vagit Alekperov
I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.
— Cesar Milstein
I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.
— Joaquim Barbosa
I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.
— Michael Joseph Kelly
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
— Paddy Chayefsky
We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
— Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
— Roy Jenkins
Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.
— Nate Mendel
Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.
— Lee Kun-hee
My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.
— Naguib Sawiris
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school.
— Piers Morgan
If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
— Meg Greenfield
I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.
— Edward Luck
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
— Alan Clark
So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?
— Mark Poster
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
— Joseph Crowley
I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.
— Justina Machado
I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
— Phil Crane
It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.
— Sonia Gandhi
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
— William Randolph
I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.
— Sergio Mattarella
Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.
— Jiang Zemin
Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
— Sidney Hillman
In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
— Louis Adolphe Thiers
Crime does not pay as well as politics.
— Alfred Newman
The gun is not out of Irish politics.
— Ian Paisley
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Share your smile with the world. It's a symbol of friendship and peace.
— Christie Brinkley
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
— Helen Keller
There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
— Thomas Aquinas
Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
— Simon Sinek
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
— Charles R. Swindoll
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
— Leo Buscaglia
True friends stab you in the front.
— Oscar Wilde
Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
— Albert Camus
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
— Marcel Proust
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
— Jean de La Fontaine
There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.
— William Butler Yeats
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
— Thomas Fuller
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
— Henry David Thoreau
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
— Len Wein
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
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
— Rabindranath Tagore
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
— Arnold H. Glasow
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
— Jerry Lewis
A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
— William Penn
Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
— Anais Nin
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
— Herodotus
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
— King Solomon
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever harm that friendship.
— Marlo Thomas
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
— Walt Whitman
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
— Henri Nouwen
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friends are born, not made.
— Henry Adams
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
— William Blake
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
— Elbert Hubbard
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
— Washington Irving
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
— St. Jerome
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
— Oprah Winfrey
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
— Henri Nouwen
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
— Thomas Jefferson
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
— Saint Francis de Sales
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
— Epicurus
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Your friend is your needs answered.
— Khalil Gibran
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
— Richard Burton
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.
— Chelsea Handler
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
— St. Jerome
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
— Suzanne Brockmann
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
— Euripides
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
— Aristotle
Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
— Eric Massa
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
— Plutarch
A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
— Haniel Long
Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in external situations cause internal friction you grow apart and then bounce back together. 
— Mariella Frostrup
Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Opposition is true friendship.
— William Blake
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
— Samuel Johnson
Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
— Lauren Conrad
Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It's also about mutual help, not about exploitation.
— Paul Theroux
Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.
— Henri Nouwen
A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can't do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.
— Delilah
On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.
— Martin Seligman
Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.
— Nargis Fakhri
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
— Robert E. Lee
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
— George Washington
All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
— Taylor Swift
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
— Charles Dickens
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
— Henry David Thoreau
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
— Mao Zedong
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
— Jane Austen
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
— Thomas Jefferson
To embrace the whole world in friendship is wisdom. This wisdom is not changeable like the flowers that bloom and fade.
— Thiruvalluvar
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
— C. S. Lewis
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
— Virginia Woolf
I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.
— Aimee Teegarden
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
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
— Madeleine Albright
Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began. 
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
— Confucius
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
— Khalil Gibran
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him. 
— Oscar Wilde
Friendship and money: oil and water.
— Mario Puzo
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
— Robert Hall
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
— Emil Zatopek
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
— Maria Shriver
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
— Albert Camus
Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.
— Mencius
Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
— Carole King
A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor.
— Lysander Spooner
I take friendship very seriously.
— Wole Soyinka
Pak-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than ocean, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel.
— Shehbaz Sharif
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
— William Hazlitt
Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.
— Brooke Elliott
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
— Bradley Chicho
One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
— Henry Adams
Shows like 'Sex and the City' got women involved again in a political way. They were drawn into the personal stories of the four women who together make up one complete cosmopolitan woman. We want to have community, and the show filled that void in our lives: friendship between women.
— Kim Cattrall
Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.
— Charles Peguy
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
— Sophie Swetchine
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
— William Hazlitt
I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.
— Cynthia Breazeal
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
— Arthur Ashe
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
— Samuel Johnson
I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.
— Wendi Deng Murdoch
Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
He who hath many friends hath none.
— Aristotle
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
— Baltasar Gracian
You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.
— Elizabeth Taylor
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
— Epicurus
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
— Joseph Brodsky
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
— Joseph Roux
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
— Plautus
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— Saint Augustine
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
— Samuel Pepys
To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
— Barack Obama
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
— Alice Miller
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship – never.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
— Samuel Johnson
Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
— Thomas Jefferson
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
— Sabrina Bryan
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
— Samuel Butler
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
— Charlotte Bronte
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
— Jeremy Taylor
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
— Hector Hugh Munro
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Plautus
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
— Theophile Gautier
Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
— Mortimer Adler
Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
— Seneca
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
— Charles de Lint
Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.
— Hill Harper
Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.
— Charles B. Rangel
Sweat makes good friendship cement.
— Tyne Daly
To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.
— Jeff Lemire
I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future.
— Apollonius of Tyana
When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.
— Solange Knowles
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world - but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first.
— Donald Trump
I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
— Alexander Graham Bell
I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.
— Martin Freeman
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
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
— Simone Weil
It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
— Charles R. Swindoll
When the bank asks me about my assets, I include my friendship with Regis Philbin.
— Lou Holtz
Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day.
— Alain de Botton
If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
— Victoria Justice
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
— E. W. Howe
Loyalty and friendship trumps politics for me.
— Robert Kraft
Ultimately, it's a sense of camaraderie and friendship with local people that is core to my journeys.
— Tim Cope
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
— Sallust
I cherish the memory of being a friend of Frank Sinatra on a friendship level to the point where we really hung out. We worked in Vegas, we'd talk on the phone, and if I wasn't doing anything, I'd fly out, and I spent time in Palm Springs at his house - on a level the way friends would be, not with a whole crowd of people.
— Frankie Valli
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
— John Tyler
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.
— Margaret Cavendish
In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
— Major Taylor
To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
— Christopher Knight
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.
— Alban Berg
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
— Eleanor Robson Belmont
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I have two or three guys that I'm really close to. We have a great friendship, and I think that helps our songwriting relationship. It's hard to start... with new people and cover the ground that I've covered with those guys.
— Sam Hunt
Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.
— Mariella Frostrup
I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
— Jessye Norman
Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
— Joel Edgerton
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
— Pietro Aretino
I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.
— Joan Rivers
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
— Unknown
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
— Anna Deavere Smith
There is no friendship in trade.
— Cornelius Vanderbilt
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
— Thomas Moore
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
— Petrarch
We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do.
— Dave Blood
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
— Ernie Banks
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
— Oscar Wilde
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
— Austin O'Malley
China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.
— Hu Jintao
I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.
— Courteney Cox
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
— Salman Rushdie
Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
— Gina Bellman
Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.
— Deborah Tannen
The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
— Eamon de Valera
As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.
— Chester A. Arthur
When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
— Zhang Ziyi
My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.
— Dalai Lama
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.
— Frederick William Faber
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
— Mignon McLaughlin
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
— Edward Young
What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
— Anais Nin
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
— Charles de Montesquieu
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.
— Mortimer Adler
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
— Black Kettle
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
— John Mayall
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
— William Glasser
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
— Jean de la Bruyere
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
— William Hazlitt
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
— Bradley Chicho
Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
— Bradley Chicho
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
— Galina Vishnevskaya
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
— Donna Leon
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.
— Joyce Carol Oates
My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.
— Emma McLaughlin
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
— Alice Walker
Stop using the word 'bromance.' Can we please kill that stupid term? We're just friends. It's called friendship!
— Blake Shelton
The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.
— Jared Kushner
I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
— Jessye Norman
Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.
— Marquis de Lafayette
Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.
— Rodrigo Duterte
Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
— George Herbert
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
— Henry Walter Bates
We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
— Ram Dass
The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
— Steven Pinker
It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
— Harvey Weinstein
I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.
— Warren Christopher
The most important thing for me is to have real friendship between Egyptians and Americans.
— Mohammed Morsi
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
Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn't a friendship when - as, for example, it's me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn't matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.
— Roman Abramovich
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
— Thomas Jefferson
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
— H. L. Mencken
I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time.
— Carine Roitfeld
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.
— Martin Freeman
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
— Ian Mckellen
You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
— Joe Biden
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
— Francis Bacon
I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.
— Alanis Morissette
I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.
— Jill Scott
The solution as consumers is - perhaps surprisingly - to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them - the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
— Alain de Botton
The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that.
— Alain de Botton
Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.
— Stephen Kinzer
When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.'
— Trent Reznor
There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey, and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great.
— Angela Merkel
My mom and I always had a great bond. It was always a natural friendship bond since early on. My mom was 18 when she had me.
— Christina Milian
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.
— Ashton Kutcher
Around the time I graduated from high school, I decided better to underachieve and have friendship than to overachieve and be alone.
— Evangeline Lilly
Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
— Kenneth Branagh
I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.
— Tim Tebow
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.
— George Santayana
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
— Roger Ailes
It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.
— Elbert Hubbard
Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
— Elbert Hubbard
There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
— Thomas Fuller
The first two lessons, which we learned early in our efforts to be good member missionaries, have made sharing the Gospel much easier: We simply can't predict who will or won't be interested in the Gospel, and building a friendship is not a prerequisite to inviting people to learn about the Gospel.
— Clayton Christensen