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
Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it to compensate for the way that work has devoured time once spent cultivating friendships.
— Stephanie Coontz
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
— Stanley Hauerwas
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
— St. Jerome
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
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
— Simone Weil
A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
— Simon Sinek
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
Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.
— Sheikh Hasina
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
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
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
— Samuel Richardson
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
— Samuel Johnson
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
— Samuel Butler
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
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
Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
— Stendhal
The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
You win the victory when you yield to friends.
— Sophocles
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
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
— Simone de Beauvoir
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows.
— Sheila Heti
CPEC is an epoch-making project going to put Pakistan-China friendship and their economic cooperation to new heights.
— Shehbaz Sharif
I want to sing of humanity, friendship, what's happening to the Earth and the like.
— Shankar Mahadevan
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
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
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
— Samuel Pepys
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.
My relationship with Shinsuke - I mean, he's a tremendous guy, we've maintained our friendship for well over a decade, and he's one of those incredible, rare, once-in-a-lifetime athletes whose ability transcends international border, which is something that's not often able to be done.
— Samoa Joe
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
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
— Stephanie Tubbs Jones
I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.
— Stefanie Powers
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
— Sophie Swetchine
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
— Socrates
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.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
— Shirley MacLaine
I find that when I'm in a relationship, I'm just so 'in it,' you couldn't even call it an art; it's such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.
Pak-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than ocean, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
— Seneca
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
Friendship and loyalty shouldn't come in the way of casting.
— Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
When I was growing up, I thought everything was a life of friendship, respect, and sharing. But I discovered that unfortunately, you have people who aren't behaving in the same way but have hatred.
— Samuel Eto'o
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