George Orwell Quotes

Without a commitment to privacy, respect, love, friendship and trust are simply inconceivable.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

Love is never easy. It never is. And I'm not just talking about girl and guy, girlfriend, boyfriend, husband and wife. I'm talking about family, friends - all of that.

But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.

Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary: dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds

I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

The bonds of love are what connect us to the other side.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

The longer I go about living, I see it's the relationship that is most meaningful.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

When you think of the people who were important in your life, prettiness was not a factor. They might have been old, fat and toothless - but they were there.

I actually really love people.

I'm very close with my family and friends.

My family, we siblings are there for each other.

The expression that friends are the family you choose, is so powerful, because most people are close with their families, and when you add people into that level of trust, love, and loyalty, it's a really meaningful thing. The fact you're actively choosing each other is so beautiful at its core.