Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that's what consumes me; think a lot of our heart is relationships. Not just with boyfriend or girlfriend but all your relationships in your life with other people and our interactions with other humans.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Love has many faces.

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.'

I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

You can't make someone be your best friend.

I'm a very physical person. I hug people more so than shake hands.

Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reserved for if you came back from Australia - you know, back in the '40s and '50s.

When you start a relationship, there's part of the friendship that dies - you can never go back.

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

If you're a stranger, and you've never met me before, I'll probably be more reserved and quiet. If you're my friend, you probably see the same stuff that you see me do onstage.

The fact is many of these guys whom I was supposed to be seeing are my buddies. I've always been the bum chum kinda girl.

It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.

Love can happen any moment, anywhere, but I am also a person who believes more in friendship than love, relationships, and affairs.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

If we're friends with someone and attracted to them, we're going to want to take it further.

It's just that I don't think friends tie friends to the bedpost." James choked on his tea. "Caroline, you have no idea.

Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.

I've reached a new level of closeness with a new friend when I can make a joke at their expense. That's one of the great joys of life for me.

Friends can hurt you, but the possibility of pain with lovers is so much greater because your expectations are so high. You don't ask as much of your friends.

That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.

For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . .