Friendship

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. Its also about mutual help, not about exploitation. – Paul Theroux

Friendships the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure. – Edward Young

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, theyre really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others. – Jena Malone

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, Id probably choose success. – Sting

Aristotle uses a mothers love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. – Mortimer Adler

Youve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country. – Joe Biden

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I dont trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. – John Cusack

Ive got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isnt 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

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but Ive 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

Im 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

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I wont do is change the essence of my work. – Paul Simon

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 cant remember anybody who was in that sense negative as far as Israel is concerned. – Shimon Peres

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweetner of life, and solder of society. – Robert Blair

I didnt like England. I couldnt 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 werent understood. I had to put a big lid on myself. – Jane Campion

If youre going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someones not being a good friend to you and isnt treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes. – Victoria Justice

One sure way to lose another womans friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. – Marcelene Cox

I play- its kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of whats their friendship like, and whats their life like and so I just play one of the four friends. – Joan Cusack

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because hes another creative person who works as hard as I do. – John Frusciante

Ive got many close friends, but theres an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case. – Warren Christopher

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I dont mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. – Marilyn Hacker