#friends

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#boxes #comics #fairly #friends #great

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place. ↗

— Denise Hildreth Jones

#bahamas #deception #friendship #natural-hurricanes #second-chances

If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#affair #because #build #business #cliffs

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts

Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#friends #guess #i #into #just

I'm a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends. ↗

— Paul Begala

#catholic #friends #fundamentalist #going #i

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#ends #first #friends #homes #laughter

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. ↗

— John Tyler

#course #cultivated #depends #far #friendship

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#absent #blots #friends #out #people