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
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect.
— Salman Rushdie
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
— Sallust
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
— Saint Francis de Sales
Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.
— Sabrina Bryan
That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance.
— Rumaan Alam
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
Let me be very clear: my friendship with my friends ends where the interest of the country begins.
— Rodrigo Duterte
'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
Everybody knows that Coutinho is a great footballer - here in England, they call him 'The Magician.' He made his decision to join Barcelona, but every time we meet and play for the Selecao, we have a good chat and maintain that friendship. He is an exceptional guy and one of the best friends football has given me.
— Roberto Firmino
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to artists because it could make it difficult to review their work, and you can never really tell if the 'friendship' is genuine.
— Robert Hilburn
My experience of what a loving relationship is like rings true with a lot of people I meet. I have a theory that the people you meet, one way you choose them, is their suitability for you in that particular matter. Attitudes toward friendship and marriage are in many cases closely aligned.
— Robert Christgau
I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
— Richard Lugar
A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.
— Reuven Rivlin
I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.
— Regina Brett
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
One of my best friendships dwindled in the pub business - we still talk, but it challenged that friendship too much - and that taught me to go into football and find people that I can have good relations with but without being overly friendly.
— Sam Allardyce
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
— Saint Basil
I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.
— Ruth Ware
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
— Rowan Williams
Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn't a friendship when - as, for example, it's me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn't matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.
— Roman Abramovich
To all my political opponents, all and sundry, not only the presidential bets, I would like to offer my hand to friendship.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
— Robin Morgan
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
— Robert Staughton Lynd
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
— Robert Hall
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
— Robert Blair
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
— Richard Burton
We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
— Rene Girard
It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Most of the things in your life are not in your control - the family you are born into, the parents, and the siblings you have. It is only friendship and love that you create for yourself in this lifetime.
— Rana Daggubati
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
— Saint Augustine
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
There are some good space battles in some of the later series, but that wasn't why you were tuning in every week. You were tuning in every week because Spock was a fascinating character. Because his friendship with Kirk was profound and really unusual.
— Ronald D. Moore
I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
— Roger Ailes
Of course I took advantage of the publicity that surrounded my friendship with Princess Margaret.
— Roddy Llewellyn
Whenever there is a new song out, we'll sometimes try to rehearse a celebration so when one of us scores a goal, we can celebrate it together. I find this a nice thing between team-mates to show the friendship between us, and I try to do this whenever I can.
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
— Robert Southey
Loyalty and friendship trumps politics for me.
— Robert Kraft
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
— Robert E. Lee
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
Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.
— Richard Attias
It's kind of crazy to think that I've now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought my ex and I back to a friendship that helped us become great co-parents.
— Regina King
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury
