Friendship Begins Quotes

#1. A mansion begins with one brick.
A forest begins with one tree.
A harvest begins with one seed.
An ocean begins with one drop.
A friendship begins with one gesture.
A fire begins with one spark.
A revolution begins with one idea.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Fisher Ames

#3. I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins.
(this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.)
there are times I want to kiss you midsentence.
undo the not-doing with one gesture.

David Levithan

#4. Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying
That's where the West begins.

Arthur Chapman

#5. Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

Jean De La Bruyere

#6. We are afraid of losing what we have.

Paulo Coelho

#7. When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

Oswald Chambers

#8. All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Most girls want the right guy. They aren't looking for a one-time thing.

H.M. Ward

#10. Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship.

Marlin K. Jensen

#11. By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

Thomas Keating

#12. The United States and Israel have enjoyed a friendship built on mutual respect and commitment to democratic principles. Our continuing search for peace in the Middle East begins with a recognition that the ties uniting our two countries can never be broken.

George W. Bush

#13. I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

Mukesh Ambani

#14. I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.

Ivan Illich

#15. You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether

Ruby Wax

#16. My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.

Jorge Luis Borges

#17. An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.

Oscar Wilde

#18. Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. Hey, Dark Princess? Here's your crap. Also, bite me.

Rachel Caine

#19. I like that attitude. Got to make your own opportunities if there aren't any coming your way." - Uncle Paul; ppg 161

Annabel Pitcher

#20. Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

Shawn Ashmore

#21. Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

Jodi Picoult

#22. You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

Nicky Cruz

#23. But to this Orc-work such a life as we lead has brought us. Lawless and fruitless all our deeds have been, serving only ourselves, and feeding hate in our hearts.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. Too nice, and yet too true!

William Shakespeare

#25. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#26. If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins.

Elvis Presley

#27. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

George Arthur Buttrick