#friends

The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong. ↗

— Dick Van Patten

#get #honest #loyalty #once #only

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. ↗

— Jean Paul

#cannot #character #clearness #discover #easily

I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#cook #dinner #discover #figure #friends

Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends. ↗

— Sally Pearson

#after #am #athletics #believe #exhilaration

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#anybody #change #extremely #friends #generally

At the beginning of the new century, it is the common aspiration of the peoples of the two countries to deepen mutual understanding, enhance trust, develop friendship and strengthen cooperation. ↗

— Li Peng

#beginning #century #common #cooperation #countries

I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily. ↗

— Tom Petty

#exactly #friends #guy #i #makes

Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised. ↗

— Katy Perry

#allowed #anything #church #circle #different

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus. ↗

— Katy Perry

#bonus #care #cool #family #friends

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#few #friends #governments #loved #many