Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.
I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
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.
India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.
French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperation my relationship with the president Chiraq are old and real.
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
People 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.
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.
Ray 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.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Working with people, the musical part is one thing but the personal part is totally different and just as critical. If the friendship is there and it's a lasting friendship, then it will take care of itself.
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy.
I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.
I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different phase of my life. The four of us will continue our close friendship, and I look forward to hearing their future efforts as the world's biggest R.E.M. fan.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.