One Measure Of Friendship Quotes

#1. One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Fadiman

#2. Most of the truly kind people of this world show some measure of discomfort when offered kindness. Their gratitude stems not only from their understanding of the depth of the force of kindness, but also from their conviction that kindness should not be taken for granted.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#3. Live life to the fullest, not at half measure like so many people do!

Melody Anne

#4. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.

Muse

#5. I'd kiss you if I could," I whispered.
Jared's breath caressed my skin. "I have other shirts."
I smiled and kissed him.

Lisa Kessler

#6. We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy's power, and raised up into newness of life in God.

David Wilkerson

#7. The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.

Claire Forlani

#8. Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

Patricia McCormick

#9. A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Francis Crick

#10. I gather we're old friends."
"By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

Amanda Hemingway

#11. Now in giving honor to one's parents or to the gods, as indeed the Philosopher says, it is impossible to repay them measure for measure; but it suffices that man repay as much as he can, for friendship does not demand measure for measure, but what is possible.

Peter Kreeft

#12. I felt obligated by friendship as well as duty to make certain they were comfortably housed. Since men seem to measure comfort by the degree of dirt and confusion that prevails, I deduced that they were very comfortable.

Elizabeth Peters

#13. One doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#14. I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't even like opening mail; I'm weird.

Douglas Coupland

#15. Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.

Jack Nicholson

#16. You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing ...

Madame De La Fayette

#17. What's friendship's realest measure?
I'll tell you. The amount of precious time you'll squander on someone else's calamities and fuck-ups.

Richard Ford

#18. To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.

Russ Ramsey

#20. People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

John Irving

#21. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

R. K. Milholland

#22. Kenny just shook his head and pointed at the now closed envelope, his look devoid of emotion. "She's pretty." He had always been good at not saying what he thought. It was the reason why he stayed out of trouble - unlike Jett. "Yeah.

J.C. Reed

#23. These are desparate times." - Stephanie Plum

Janet Evanovich

#24. You don't look half as crazy as I thought you'd look ... Olivia said something about a redheaded gargoyle with fangs

Tarryn Fisher

#25. Money isn't the only measure of making a house a home.

M. Judeth Nelson

#26. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.

Esther Earl

#27. Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot

#28. We live in a friendly universe. At the heart of all things is goodness. We receive this goodness in the measure to which we cultivate friendship with the universe.

Dada Vaswani

#29. Does love cease to exist the second you kiss another person? Is love that fickle?

Jay Bell

#30. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

Dennis Prager

#31. If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. I seem at once cursed to say precisely what I'm thinking to him and unable to tell what he thinks about it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#33. We need great prophetic leaders in religion and in spirituality ... what we are getting is lacking in vision ... not able to engage with the diversity of the culture.

John O'Donohue

#34. We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure ...
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#35. I don't know why some people get worked up about gay people marrying. It's not gay people who are ruining the sanctity of marriage, it's celebrities.

Craig Ferguson

#36. I measure my friends not by being there with me when everything is going well, but embracing me when I'm criticized and when I endure tough times.

Terraine Francois