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" Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. "

Oliver Goldsmith

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

" When David Fincher called me up a few years ago and said, 'Hey, I'd like you to score this film 'The Social Network,' I said, 'I'm flattered, but I really don't have any real experience scoring films, and I'd rather not screw it up on a high-profile project. And I like you and I don't want to compromise our friendship.' "

" Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. "

" I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world. "

" 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. "

" November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude. "

Deborah Sampson

" Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter. "

" And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future. "

Aleksander Kwasniewski

" Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. "

" Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. "

Oliver Goldsmith

" There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. "

" I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you. "

" At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. "

" The arrogance that says analysing the relationship between reasons and causes is more important than writing a philosophy of shyness or sadness or friendship drives me nuts. I can't accept that. "

Alain de Botton

" Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. "

Oliver Goldsmith

" There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship - it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan. "

" Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Christopher Knight

" I only understand friendship or scorched earth. "

" '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. "

" In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. "

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

" As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other. "

" I have learned that friendship isn't about who you've known the longest, it's about who came and never left your side. "

" One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. "

" I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase. "

Jennifer Aniston

" I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. "

Oliver Goldsmith

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

" Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? "