The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.
Copy Quote View & ShareLove and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.
Copy Quote View & ShareNeatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
Copy Quote View & ShareAll those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
Copy Quote View & ShareThose 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareBecause 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
Copy Quote View & SharePlunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
Copy Quote View & ShareBlunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
Copy Quote View & ShareThings 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareI noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
Copy Quote View & ShareI think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
Copy Quote View & ShareRay 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.
Copy Quote View & SharePeople 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareI 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareI hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.
Copy Quote View & ShareChina 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.
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