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" I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man. "

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" The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him. "

Thiruvalluvar

Respect

Wise

Men

" Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. "

" Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. "

Bradley Chicho

Only

Honesty

" How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. "

" I have always found the baptism of Jesus, with a dove descending and voice from Heaven, one of the great moments in the Jesus story. This is where Jesus hears the deep call from God. "

" Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II. "

" We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love. "

" When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands. "

" Usually, you don't have commitment promises in a friendship. Usually, it just grows. "

" We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. "

" '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. "

" True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. "

" Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Friend

Face

Friendship

" Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. "

" As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. "

" I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all. "

" Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency. "

" Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way. "

" 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. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sympathy

Words

Trying

" I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general. "

" There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time. "

" 'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song. "

" Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. "

William Hazlitt

Friendship

Intimacy

" I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. "

" Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. "

Sydney Smith

Friendship

Looking

" What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed. "

" If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines. "