Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
I despise shows that present friendship where you’re always there for each other and really strong because I don’t know anyone like that. I mean, I’ve got great friends, but I can go months without seeing them because I think, ‘I just can’t deal with having to give you anything.’
The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn’t the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.
When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
I think what ‘The Hobbit’ and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship… so they’re things that do resonate with people.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
I know Donald Trump. I’ve met him; I know his family. I have love and friendship and affection for his family members. But I’m going to work very hard to ensure that he is not our president.
You can’t build anything with a flimsy foundation. Friendship is the foundation.
No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
I haven’t expressed this too much in public, but I have a friendship to a degree with Bruce Springsteen.
My characters have never waged a war against any gender. They are all about friendship and being loyal to your friends.
The orchid’s association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.
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