Friendship

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

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

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 most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Came but for friendship, and took away love. – Thomas Moore

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting. – Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. – Oliver Goldsmith

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. – Kenneth Branagh

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. – Charles Eastman

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

Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. – Robert Staughton Lynd

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. – Sophie Swetchine

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

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

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages. – Jasmine Guy

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. – Paul Getty

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

On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality. – Vicente Fox