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" My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship. "

Michael Foreman

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" Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important. "

" Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division. "

Doris Kearns Goodwin

" 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. "

" The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? "

" 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. "

Cornelia Otis Skinner

" As the 2016 campaign has graphically illustrated, Trump doesn't treat rivals gently. Testifying before a congressional committee in 1993, he began with his rote protestations of friendship. "

" 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. "

" Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit. "

" People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other. "

" Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. "

" I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship. "

" That a friendship ends doesn't mean it was weak from the outset; that it ends says nothing about its importance. "

" I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. "

" When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship. "

Lidia Bastianich

" Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor. "

" 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.' "

" To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up. "

Christopher Knight

" 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

" Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. "

Charles de Lint

" Restoration of friendship with Russia, our biggest neighbor, is necessary for our peace and economy. "

Bidzina Ivanishvili

" Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. "

Thomas Jefferson

" There are a lot of musicians I've met on Twitter where it was like, 'Hey, I like your music' - and then I ended up meeting them and it turned into a friendship. "

" 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. "

" A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. "

Henry David Thoreau

" For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. "

" 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. "

" No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground. "

Madeleine Albright