#friend

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#assassinations #dispositions #friendly #give #ill

People wanted to be friends with me for not the right reasons. They'd introduce me to somebody else as the Olympian or the swimmer. I didn't want to stand out. I wanted to blend in. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#else #friends #i #introduce #me

It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#career #could #cup #during #friends

Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis. ↗

— Boris Becker

#been #first #first love #girlfriend #had

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#beginning #best #ending #friendship #laughter

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#become #being #book #faster #friend

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay. ↗

— Sandy Berger

#been #convey #countries #cross #deliberate

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dead #desire #friends #living #made

Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#friendship

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#best friend #diego #friend #grew #i