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. Eric Massa
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. Veronica Roth
Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. Nahum Tate
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. August Strindberg
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. Stefanie Powers
India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation. Pratibha Patil
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires. Bradley Chicho
The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love. Bradley Chicho
Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit. Bradley Chicho
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. Ali A. Saleh
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. Ernst Mayr
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. Isabel Lucas
My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism. John Woo
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. Eddie Murray
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them. Hector Hugh Munro
To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up. Christopher Knight
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. Greg Bear
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. Warren G. Harding
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. John Mayall
My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do. Stephanie Tubbs Jones