#friends

Friendships sail like any other ship... left unattended, it will drift away ↗

— Sensei Stokes

#friendship

Do I need to hire a hit man? ↗

— Eve Berlin

#humor #friendship

In the closed circle of the war cabinet, pounded by terrible report after terrible report, there had been uncertainty about whether he could fend off the drift to exploring a deal with Hitler. The determination of the larger group trumped the tentativeness of the smaller, and Churchill fulfilled his role as leader by disentangling himself from defeatism--one of his singular achievements at the end of May 1940. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#determination #group-dynamics #winston-churchill #friendship

Sometime it last in love but sometime it hurt in stead. ↗

— Irfan Syamil

#friendship

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry." "Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#compassion #fantasy #friendship #kids #wonder

You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat. ↗

— Holly Stephens

#friendship #friendship

Valerie Jennings had clearly searched deep within her wardrobe for something suitably flattering, only to retrieve a frock of utter indifference to fashion. There had been an attempt to tame her hair, which seemed to have been abandoned, and the fuzzy results were clipped to the back of her head. "You look nice," said Hebe Jones. ↗

— Julia Stuart

#friendship #hair #friendship

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#friendship #gentle #listening #reaching-out #sheltered

But that would leave Paxton to fend for herself, and the last thing any woman wanted in this kind of situation was to look around and see all the people who could help her doing nothing. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#women #friendship

He will always be my Sir Galahad. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#clark-gable #friendship #friendship