Jean-Claude Juncker Quotes

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

Friendship and loyalty shouldn't come in the way of casting.

It's kind of a weird thing when you've been at the top of a division you've been in your entire career to kind of take a backseat because of friendship.

I lay around and wonder why you were always there for me.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.

I want to caution that we must not confuse patriotism with blind endorsement of bad policies.

When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.

Anyone who meets you and doesn't want to get to know you and be part of your life is stupid. I saw it when I was just a kid." "No. You thought I was a vampire and you wanted to be my friend so I wouldn't eat you." "Well, that too. But I found out soon enough you weren't a blood sucker and I still licked you.

I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends.

The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color

I prefer to act with friends. I mean you start off as strangers always with someone, but to really find a relationship that you enjoy personally and creatively, it's fantastic.

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it was like a sickness and be of any help I could to him and try to be a good friend. He had many good, good friends, more than anyone I knew. But I enlisted as one more, whether I could be of any use to him or not. If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even better one. I did not know Zelda yet, and so I did not know the terrible odds that were against him. But we were to find them out soon enough.

Anushka Sharma is a dear friend; as is Jacqueline Fernandez. They always stand by me for support when it’s needed

We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.

The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be. If someone is truly a loyal friend, then they wouldn't need to broadcast it; eventually, people will figure it out. I have a lot of good friends and not one of them has ever introduced themselves by saying, 'I'm a very good friend.'

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

Her only way home was to betray her friend.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.