friendship

"I am blessed with a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense."

"The friend, enemy, and combat concepts receive their real meaning precisely because they refer to the real possibility of physical killing. War follows from enmity. War is the existential negation of …"

"It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them."

"What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude: the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art."

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few se…"

"Sontag profile in Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States"

"Britain must now take our hand of friendship or reject it. I do not believe it will be rejected."

"Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."

"Really and truly—I’ve nothing to wear."

"There are girls who do not like real life... Some of these girls are innocent enough to think that these unreal friendships will lead to true love — a kind of sexual intercourse that will happen to th…"

"Traditions that were once vital, sincere and splendid and which are now merely empty formulae, break away from both and produce something vital, connected with the soil, something essentially Indian."

"After his defeat in the 1919 election, Mussolini saw no future in trying to out-socialist the socialists. Without a distinct policy, without friends and backing, he was in serious danger of ending up …"

"This is an ever-changing world. Seven years ago, who would have thought that the iPhone would change the world? A year ago, who would have thought that I would become the mayor of Taipei? Just a month…"

"My main statement in that it does not really matter if you believe that this world, or any of its features, is new or not. My analysis stands by itself. This is our world, the world of the Information…"

"The class Dog is functionally cohesive if its semantics embrace the behavior of a dog, the whole dog, and nothing but the dog."

"Even in his palmiest days there were good friends who could stand only limited stretches of the Lambert barrage of ideas, jokes, fantasy, quotations, apt instances, things that had struck him as he wa…"

"It was a great game, and exciting and dramatic and even at times tragic - but funny it emphatically was not."

"I can't let go of my own vision of Nightmare on Elm Street, I just don't want to, I don't want to see another person play Freddy Kruger. I don't want to see scenes that we worked really hard on be rei…"

"I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all."

"Charm is the ultimate weapon, the supreme seduction, against which there are few defences.  If you've got it, you need almost nothing else, neither money, looks, nor pedigree.  It's a gift, only to be…"