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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
— Katee Sackhoff
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
— Paloma Faith
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
— Gertrude Stein
I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
— Joanna Lumley
Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
— Steven Van Zandt
It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.
— Ari Graynor
The key to doing 'Harold and Kumar' movies is you make it earnest. Primarily what we do is make Harold and Kumar's relationship and friendship believable, and we don't actually work on being that funny.
— John Cho
I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.
— Poppy Delevingne
In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.
— Mariella Frostrup
You can't build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
— Hill Harper
Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.
— Martin McGuinness
A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
— Zadie Smith
I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
— Kaley Cuoco
In 1962, I wrote a series about 42nd Street called 'Welcome to Lostville.' One result was that the young Bob Dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at Town Hall; the result was a kind of friendship that years later led to my liner notes for 'Blood on the Tracks.'
— Pete Hamill
006 was such an interesting character and the film really explored his friendship with Bond and how it all went wrong, so it was a very personal journey for both characters.
— Sean Bean
A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.
— Reuven Rivlin
Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.
— Mother Angelica
When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.
— Mother Angelica
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
— Michael Dirda
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
— Sam Brownback
Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.
— Katarina Johnson-Thompson
My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.
— Jodie Foster
Advocating for yourself in the context of friendship starts with choosing the right people to be part of your inner circle.
— Kimberly Guilfoyle
There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship - it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan.
— Tzipi Livni
My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'
— Atal Bihari Vajpayee
I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
— Jay Parini
There was a time when I thought dudes had friendship all figured out. The focus on eating things in front of giant screens, pretending to punch one another, competing over who can utter the grossest and most profane personal insults imaginable - this struck me as the very apex of human social exchange.
— Lynn Coady
Friendship is something that is cultivated.
— Thalia
It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
— Abby Wambach
Look, I worked with American Republican presidents and Democratic presidents, all of them, and each of them has shown a deep and profound friendship to Israel, you know? I can't remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned.
— Shimon Peres
Friendship formed in the glamour industry comes with mutual benefits, which is nice, but it is not the real deal.
— Mohit Chauhan
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
— Hanya Yanagihara
In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Friendship is one of our most treasured relationships, but it isn't codified and celebrated; it's never going to give you a party.
— Hanya Yanagihara
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Maybe having to pretend to be in love with someone and then jump into bed with them breaks the ice very quickly friendship follows fast. 
— Katherine Kelly
No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.
— Max von Sydow
There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship.
— Grimes
Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
— Fiona Apple
Value your friendship. Value your relationships.
— Barbara Bush
Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.
— Michael Cimino
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
— Jane Green
Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
— Jane Green
I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.
— Marquis de Lafayette
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
— Paul Simon
Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
— E. W. Howe
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
— E. W. Howe
Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.
— Russell Crowe
A band is a good way to break up a friendship.
— Julian Casablancas
CPEC is an epoch-making project going to put Pakistan-China friendship and their economic cooperation to new heights.
— Shehbaz Sharif
China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.
— Li Keqiang
When it comes to Pakistan, the first word that comes to the mind of the Chinese is 'iron brother.' To us Chinese, Pakistan is always a trustworthy friend who is as solid as iron. Actually, Chinese netizens refer to Pakistan as 'Iron Pak.' This testifies to the strength of China-Pakistan friendship.
— Li Keqiang
To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.
— Rodrigo Duterte
I got to sing with Placido Domingo... I got to sing with Aaron Neville, who is one of my favorites. Got to sing with Brian Wilson, one of the great high tenors. And Ricky Skaggs, a bluegrass tenor. I'm also proud of my musical friendship with Emmylou Harris.
— Linda Ronstadt
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
— Sting
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
— Jean Cocteau
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
— J. Paul Getty
The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.
— Betty Gilpin
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.
— Daniel Tammet
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
— Jane Campion
If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.
— John Glenn
The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn't the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.
— Colin Morgan
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
I believe the friendship of the Games still exists. There is a tremendous camaraderie and atmosphere at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games - where else could you go and sit down and have breakfast with a Russian weightlifter, an East German sprinter, and an Indian fencer and talk about different cultures and problems?
— Lynn Davies
My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.
— Tom Lehrer
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
I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I'm good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.
— Sonakshi Sinha
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
— Stendhal
I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
— Marion Cotillard
I definitely have guys that I'm friends with that I have a crush on, and you don't want to ruin the friendship.
— Miranda Cosgrove
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
— Charles Lamb
When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period when I was growing up, and it was about kids, but it really felt like what it was like to have those powerful feelings of friendship at age 12.' That's what got to me.
— Rob Reiner
Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
— Amity Shlaes
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
— Lucy Larcom
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
My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
— Enrique Iglesias
But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.
— Ernie Banks
My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.
— Ernie Banks
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
— Neale Donald Walsch
As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.
— Neale Donald Walsch
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
— John F. Kelly
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
— Oliver Goldsmith
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
— Sallust
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
— Sallust
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
— Sallust
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
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.
— Joan Cusack
The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.
— Christopher McCulloch
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
— Edward Gibbon
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
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
I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.
— Jamie Campbell Bower
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.
— Marilyn Hacker
For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.
— Christopher Moore
The friendship I had with Elvis began to take shape in 1968 when I was recording in Memphis. I'd record during the day, and Elvis would send one of his guys over to bring me to Graceland at night. Everything you've heard about Graceland during Elvis's glory days is true and then some.
— Bill Medley
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
— Hayao Miyazaki
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
— Georg Brandes
Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.
— Marie Antoinette
I come from the New York theatre world, and I have a lot of gay male friends, so this friendship of Will and Grace's isn't such a stretch.
— Debra Messing
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
— Kenny Rogers
I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
— Sebastian Faulks
Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
— Namie Amuro
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
Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him. I really loved Frank like you do a brother.
— Jimmy Carl Black
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
— Judy Holliday
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
— Charles de Lint
I despise shows that present friendship where you're always there for each other and really strong because I don't know anyone like that. I mean, I've got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, 'I just can't deal with having to give you anything.'
— Sharon Horgan
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
— Sam Houston
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain, is a culture of friendship.
— Andrew Sullivan
I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend.
— Sarah Hyland
I think I'd probably be really good friends with Hulk Hogan. I think we'd get along, and I'd, like, chill him out because he'd be all rambunctious and rowdy, and I'd be like, 'Chill out, Hulk Hogan. Everything will be okay.' And he'd be like, 'Thanks, Ron.' And then we'd form a friendship.
— Ron Funches
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
I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.
— Stephen Pagliuca
Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
— Samantha Harvey
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
— Eve Arnold
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
— Mae Whitman
Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy.
— Bidzina Ivanishvili
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
— Anna Freud
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
— Armistead Maupin
That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did.
— Randy West
Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate.
— Vincent Nichols
Stretching back nearly three decades, Brian Williams and I have forged an enduring friendship. It all began in 1986 at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia and has resulted in a set of noteworthy experiences, amazing successes, and a bunch of trips to NASCAR speedways.
— Steve Capus
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
— James F. Byrnes
I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
— Najib Mikati
I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.
— Jesse Ball
Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
— Chris Raschka
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
— Gilbert Parker
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
— June Jordan
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
— Jennifer Beals
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
— Katherine Mansfield
I have a very close friendship with the skaters.
— Eric Heiden
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
— Aleksander Kwasniewski
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
I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.
— Carl Hagelin
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.
— Susan Glaspell
This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.
— Gerard Arpey
India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
— Pratibha Patil
I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
— Irvin D. Yalom
Israelis can be proud of the vibrant democracy that they have created, and I know that many Rhode Islanders share my deep appreciation for the close friendship between our two nations.
— Lincoln Chafee
People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.
— Thiruvalluvar
I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
— Quentin Bryce
I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.
— La India
If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we're all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the 'kibbutz.'
— Nir Eyal
I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don't know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school.
— Winnie Holzman
I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
— Kenny Marchant
I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
— Richard Lugar
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
— Patrick O'Brian
As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.
— Dean Smith
My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
— Michael Foreman
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation; my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
— Ali Abdullah Saleh
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
— Eddie Murray
I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.
— Ruth Ware
I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But even more than that, I love it when my readers find lasting friendship with others of my readers - knowing that they met through their mutual affection for my books and characters makes me happy!
— Suzanne Brockmann
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
— James Whistler
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
— Ernst Mayr
One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
— Marcelene Cox
Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
— Bradley Chicho
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
— Alicia Machado
I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
— Jason Dolley
If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.
— Bruce Cameron
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
— Stephanie Tubbs Jones
The second one, the joint Truth and Friendship Commission, which we started now with Indonesia, that is the one that has been criticized; its terms of reference call for providing amnesty for those who cooperate in telling the truth. It does not lead to prosecution.
— Jose Ramos-Horta
'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.
— Rochelle Aytes
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
— August Strindberg
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.
— Laura Riding
I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
— Tim Finn
We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.
— Dolly Wells
I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.
— Dolly Wells
I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.
— Diane English
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
I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
— Mark Valley
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
— Robert Blair
Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.
— Greg Bear
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
— Dan Fouts
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
— J. Donald Walters
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
— Juan Antonio Samaranch
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
— Juan Antonio Samaranch
I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.
— Laura Leighton
When I was first pitched the show, I was like, 'Oh, God, a soapy show called 'Mistresses.'' But it wasn't that at all. It wasn't a bunch of women pulling guns on each other and stabbing each other in the back. We really have a core friendship.
— Jes Macallan
Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
— Augustine Birrell
In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.
— Dirk Kempthorne
I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
— Hank Haney
Yeah, I miss it. You don't just break off a friendship you've had with a sport, and with all those you've met all over the country. We've got some friends, some very close friends, and you just sit back and think how fortunate you were having a career like that. And, actually, there's nothing in the game of baseball that hasn't happened to me.
— Lou Boudreau
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.
— Lucan
I have a couple of best friends, and I don't think I would live with them. It definitely... certain people can't live together, and I think that it could potentially put a lot of strain on the relationship or friendship.
— Alexandra Chando
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
— Alison McGhee
We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
— Joshua Prager
As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
— Taylor Handley
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
— Francois Lelord
Friendship is the most important thing of all.
— Kim Philby
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.
— Brooks Adams
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
— Max Jacob
I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.
— Bill Berry
Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.
— Jeff Cohen
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.
— Emil Ludwig
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
— Francis Marion Crawford
Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. 
— Eustace Budgell
In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.
— Tony Garza
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.
— Leonardo da Vinci
The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
— Carl Jung
Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
— Taraji P. Henson
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
— Jim Rohn
A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
— John Steinbeck
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
— Bill Blass
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
— Franz Schubert
There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.
— Troy Polamalu
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
— Saadi
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when you doubt yourself, and when you feel like everything you do sucks, but then there's those days when you feel like Superman. It's just the balance of the world. I just write to feel better.
— Mac Miller
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
— Morrie Schwartz
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
— H. G. Wells
To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
— Dorothy Thompson
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
— Rumi
Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
— Yoko Ono
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
— William S. Burroughs
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
— Anne Bronte
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
— Charles R. Swindoll
Sadness is also a kind of defence.
— Ivo Andric
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
— Audrey Hepburn
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
— Mark Twain
When you're happy you don't always have to be laughing, and when you're sad you don't have to be crying; sometimes it's the opposite. You laugh when you're the most upset.
— Freddie Highmore
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
— Henry David Thoreau
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
— Steven Tyler
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
— Conor Oberst
The day I am not able to fly will be a sad day for me.
— Ratan Tata
I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
— Dolly Parton
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. 
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
— Rainn Wilson
I don't like people around me sad. I like making people happy.
— Tyler, The Creator
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
— Neil Armstrong
I have many years to get better and better, and that has to be my ambition. The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
— Lionel Messi
The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.
— Jane Goodall
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
— Stephen King
I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.
— Irina Shayk
Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and they don't feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody's pretending it's not true, and we need to break that veneer.
— Eve Ensler
I was a sad kid.
— Post Malone
Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.
— Pete Best
I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to.
— Ashton Kutcher
When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.
— Leo Buscaglia
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. 
— Comte de Lautreamont
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
— Chief Joseph
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
— Garrison Keillor
When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.
— Ashley Monroe
The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit.
— William Proxmire
If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.
— Hoda Kotb
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
— Christina Rossetti
Deep down, I reckon the sweetest moment will come when it's finally all over. When, at last, I know that I can stop fighting. Of course it'll also be a little sad. The sweetest moments, y'know, always come with just a little sadness.
— Evander Holyfield
I've had tons of bullies who would call me retarded, even on my Facebook page. It's sad and it really hurts. I want to tell people not to use the word. Don't say your friend's retarded when they do something foolish. If you have a disability, keep working hard. Whatever it takes, do it, and don't be mean to people.
— Lauren Potter
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
— Jackie Kennedy
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
— Sylvia Plath
I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
— Dalai Lama
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
— Joseph Campbell
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
— William Blake
I had sadness for breakfast.
— Andy Milonakis
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.
— Monica Bellucci