Quotes about Friendships

Friendships are discovered rather than made. Votes: 4

Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs. Votes: 4

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best. Votes: 4

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. Votes: 4

Friendships are an unforseeable burden. Votes: 3

Friendships are nice. So is competence. Votes: 3

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. Votes: 3

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships, Language. Sensibility. Votes: 3

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. Votes: 3

Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal. Votes: 3

Friendships I think can also be soul mates. Votes: 3

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.... Votes: 3

Friendships, along with love, make life worth living. Votes: 3

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. Votes: 3

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts. Votes: 3

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. Votes: 3

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up. Votes: 3

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. Votes: 3

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other. Votes: 3

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. Votes: 3

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side Votes: 3

Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling. Votes: 3

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard. Votes: 3

Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another. Votes: 3

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. Votes: 3

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. Votes: 3

Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in. Votes: 3

It's important to respect both your teammates and your opponents. Friendships can make a victory last forever. Votes: 3

A friend cannot be owned That is plain to see Friendships must be shared, Just like our friend, Ruby Votes: 3

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. Votes: 3

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. Votes: 3

Friendships that last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from them. Votes: 3

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement. Votes: 3

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. Votes: 3

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. Votes: 3

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. Votes: 3

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. Votes: 3

You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living. Votes: 3

Friendships that are first grounded in the shared professional ambitions - social stuff is built around that - and then you see people pulling each other up as they rise. Votes: 3

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right? Votes: 3

Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this. Votes: 3

I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship ... Votes: 3

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness. Votes: 2

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Votes: 2

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people. Votes: 2

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back. Votes: 2

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships. Votes: 2

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men. Votes: 2

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness. Votes: 2

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. Votes: 2

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time. Votes: 2

Your most important friendships should be with your own brothers and sisters and with your father and mother. Love your family. Be loyal to them. Have a genuine concern for your brothers and sisters. Votes: 2

Jesus said, 'Greater things of these you shall do...' Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character. Votes: 2

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting. Votes: 2

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore. Votes: 2

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. Votes: 2

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary. Votes: 2

I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships. Votes: 2

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts. Votes: 2

There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces. Votes: 2

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks. Votes: 2

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living. Votes: 2

Keep your friendships in repair. Votes: 0

PARTY POLITICS DIVIDES FRIENDSHIPS SOMETIMES. Votes: 0

Female friendships are of rapid growth. Votes: 0

All friendships are negotiations of power. Votes: 0

Most men's friendships are too inarticulate. Votes: 0

Strong relationships come from well-bonded friendships. Votes: 0

Keeping score is for games, not friendships. Votes: 0

The best relationships develop out of friendships. Votes: 0

Contests allow no excuses, no more do friendships. Votes: 0

Behind many broken friendships there is a marriage. Votes: 0

Sometimes friendships develop under the most unusual circumstances ... Votes: 0

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. Votes: 0

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs. Votes: 0

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues. Votes: 0

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. Votes: 0

I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships. Votes: 0

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. Votes: 0

Pray for healthy loving friendships, and you will have them. Votes: 0

The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses. Votes: 0

We never tire of the friendships we form with books. Votes: 0

Your best friendships are with people who share your world view. Votes: 0

Get a hobby. Maintain your friendships. Hang out with other people. Votes: 0

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships. Votes: 0

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries. Votes: 0

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. Votes: 0

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships. Votes: 0

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. Votes: 0

It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships. Votes: 0

The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune. Votes: 0

Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken. Votes: 0

You can't have real and authentic friendships unless you honor your feelings. Votes: 0

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships. Votes: 0

Matter of fact, the interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent. Votes: 0

The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other. Votes: 0

Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up. Votes: 0

Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring. Votes: 0

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. Votes: 0

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships. Votes: 0

Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle. Votes: 0

Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time. Votes: 0

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another. Votes: 0

I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family. Votes: 0

Sometimes it's difficult maintaining my friendships, but to me, it's well worth it. Votes: 0

For many, long-term friendships, rather than family ties, are the foundations for sustainable lives. Votes: 0

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous. Votes: 0

Diplomats and politicians, blowing with the wind. No substance, no beliefs, no real friendships. Votes: 0

The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life. Votes: 0

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers. Votes: 0

Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can. Votes: 0

The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity. Votes: 0

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all. Votes: 0

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more. Votes: 0

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures. Votes: 0

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds Votes: 0

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds. Votes: 0

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests. Votes: 0

Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation. Votes: 0

There are silver ships There are gold ships, But there are no ships Like friendships. Votes: 0

Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place. Votes: 0

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! Votes: 0

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule. Votes: 0

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too. Votes: 0

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. Votes: 0

I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships. Votes: 0

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. Votes: 0

You don't really see too many straight friendships between men and women on 'Mad Men.' Votes: 0

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships. Votes: 0

Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships. Votes: 0

Seasons vary, circumstances change, feelings fluctuate, friendships cool, friends die, but Christ is ever the same. Votes: 0

Some friendships are made by nature, some by contract, some by interest, and some by souls. Votes: 0

Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative. Votes: 0

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships. Votes: 0

Build relationships and friendships by finding common experiences or interests instead of getting discouraged by noticeable differences. Votes: 0

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. Votes: 0

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. Votes: 0

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed Votes: 0

It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. Votes: 0

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. Votes: 0

Build mutual friendships. Just be ready to end them when your friends start trying to eat you. Votes: 0

True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist. Votes: 0

One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs. Votes: 0

I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone. Votes: 0

I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built. Votes: 0

I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life. Votes: 0

Not all friendships take a long time to grow and deepen. Some are formed in an instant. Votes: 0

One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made. Votes: 0

It is better to break off a thousand friendships, than to endure the sight of a single enemy. Votes: 0

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture. Votes: 0

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true. Votes: 0

If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point. Votes: 0

Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships. Votes: 0

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. Votes: 0

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships. Votes: 0

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. Votes: 0

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. Votes: 0

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time. Votes: 0

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives. Votes: 0

To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men. Votes: 0

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful. Votes: 0

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world. Votes: 0

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one. Votes: 0

I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. Votes: 0

Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships. Votes: 0

I think it's very rare that you see girl friendships on television. It's always cattiness and all that drama. Votes: 0

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. Votes: 0

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. Votes: 0

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect. Votes: 0

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. Votes: 0

We live in a world of easy friendships - people here for you when it's easy, 'so-sorry-but-I-have-an-errand-to-do-now' when it's not. Votes: 0

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. Votes: 0

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. Votes: 0

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering. Votes: 0

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. Votes: 0

My dreams about finding a place to create true, meaningful friendships around my fake video game world had come true. Votes: 0

My relationship, my friendships with Grateful Dead, has shaped me. Our house is a shrine to all our musical heroes. Votes: 0

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Votes: 0

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like. Votes: 0

There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self. Votes: 0

It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear. Votes: 0

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty. Votes: 0

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. Votes: 0

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. Votes: 0

Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you Votes: 0

Cultivate friendships. If you don't have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus. Votes: 0

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether. Votes: 0

Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls. Votes: 0

How amazing it is that friendships can become so full that you can't imagine what your life was like before them. Votes: 0

People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality. Votes: 0

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. Votes: 0

Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse. Votes: 0

Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women. Votes: 0

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time. Votes: 0

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me. Votes: 0

Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us. Votes: 0

Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra Votes: 0

Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle. Votes: 0

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry. Votes: 0

I think women are amazing and womens friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film. Votes: 0

I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge. Votes: 0

I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either. Votes: 0

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film. Votes: 0

We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships. Votes: 0

As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find Votes: 0

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar! Votes: 0

I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships. Votes: 0

I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply. Votes: 0

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships. Votes: 0

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all. Votes: 0

All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends, And many friendships in the days of Time Begun, are lasting there and growing still. Votes: 0

The real thing young people should fear is missing out on those few, true, long-term friendships that make for a richer, happier life. Votes: 0

Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die. Votes: 0

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology. Votes: 0

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant... Votes: 0

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be. Votes: 0

People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships. Votes: 0

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities. Votes: 0

The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships. Votes: 0

People aren't defined by their relationship. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships. Votes: 0

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children. Votes: 0

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like. Votes: 0

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. Votes: 0

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried. Votes: 0

I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities. Votes: 0

I have many intense friendships with artists. I don't mean we have intense one-day conversations but ongoing conversations that last in some cases for years. Votes: 0

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them. Votes: 0

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another. Votes: 0

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. Votes: 0

The more time we spend interconnected via a myriad of devices, the less time we have left to develop true friendships in the real world. Votes: 0

Britannia High' is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school. Votes: 0

You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. Votes: 0

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads. Votes: 0

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability. Votes: 0

I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them. Votes: 0

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business. Votes: 0

The quickest way to be a little bit happier and more engaged in your job is to spend some time thinking about developing closer friendships. Votes: 0

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly. Votes: 0

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes. Votes: 0

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart. Votes: 0

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday. Votes: 0

Britannia High is this new, edgy series which follows the lives of seven kids, their friendships, and the troubles they go through at stage school. Votes: 0

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last. Votes: 0

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about. Votes: 0

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart. Votes: 0

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love. Votes: 0

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself. Votes: 0

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains. Votes: 0

I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby. Votes: 0

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us. Votes: 0

When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family. Votes: 0

I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course. Votes: 0

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology. Votes: 0

[How to train your dragon] is beautiful to look at and, again, those values that it contains about relationships, friendships, and bonding in the face of ignorance. Votes: 0

The attitude you pose is greatly influenced by the links of friendships you bookmark. Good friends, good attitudes; best friends, best attitudes. Guess what for toxic friends...! Votes: 0

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives. Votes: 0

Because he knew the best way to get what he wanted was to break down what made us strongest. And our friendships were what made us strong. Votes: 0

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities. Votes: 0

I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give. Votes: 0

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people. Votes: 0

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth Votes: 0

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time. Votes: 0

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy. Votes: 0

I'm in Delta Delta Delta, otherwise known as Tri-Delta. I've developed some great friendships, and it's enabled me to have a little bit more of a normal college experience. Votes: 0

If you've got a partner that's supportive and you're doing something you enjoy it doesn't ever become a job or a burden. Its about community, new friendships, support mechanism. Votes: 0

Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone. Votes: 0

Girls use social media in all kinds of ways. They use it to have friendships. They use it to be playful with each other, to make each other laugh. Votes: 0

I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book. Votes: 0

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes. Votes: 0

Part of 'Beyond The Music' is also the notion that no matter what came of us, or the band, the most important thing for us ended up being the friendships. Votes: 0

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. Votes: 0

Prepare for joy - speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you. Votes: 0

My life isn't focused on results. My life is really focused on the process of doing all the things I'm doing, from work to relationships to friendships to charitable work. Votes: 0

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.] Votes: 0

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. Votes: 0

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused. Votes: 0

I'm interested in female friendships and family relationships. So I don't write the traditional romance, where you just have the hero and the heroine's love story. I like intertwining relationships. Votes: 0

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience. Votes: 0

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing. Votes: 0

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business. Votes: 0

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows. Votes: 0

Just as people have long believed that strengthening ties of trade improves the prospects for peace and the free exchange of ideas, Facebook friendships or Twitter followings already transcend national borders. Votes: 0

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions. Votes: 0

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others. Votes: 0

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls. Votes: 0

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent. Votes: 0

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook. Votes: 0

The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships. Votes: 0

It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that doesn't roll off the tongue like 'YouTube sensation.' Votes: 0

What's cool about baseball is you don't have to see someone for years, but when you see them, you just hustle up and give them a big hug. Those friendships endure. Votes: 0

I suppose, at 50, you value things in a different way. So you value connections, you value your friendships, you value your health, and you are much more aware of time passing. Votes: 0

This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships. Votes: 0

Marriage - as well as erotic friendships and sexual liaisons -between members of contrasting races and religions will take place with greater frequency, and will be more accepted than it is today. Votes: 0

People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don't make close friends is because they're too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves. Votes: 0

Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China. Votes: 0

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't. Votes: 0

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection. Votes: 0

Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness. Votes: 0

Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy. Votes: 0

We are already seeing the creation of a new kind of network based on friendships: Startups, which are often founded by friends, are the beginning of something that could reshape social relations. Votes: 0

These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that. Votes: 0

Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected. Votes: 0

There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships. Votes: 0

Among young people, often a key factor in them committing suicide is the trauma of transient relationships. They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate. Votes: 0

I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram. Votes: 0

Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to natures most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues. Votes: 0

As I get older I find that the friendships that are the most certain, ultimately, are the ones where you and the other person have made substantial amounts of money for one another. Votes: 0

Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues. Votes: 0

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy. Votes: 0

I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have. Votes: 0

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way. Votes: 0

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics. Votes: 0

An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word. Votes: 0

I support any means to make real connections so long as that it does lead really quickly to real connections. It's the long-term online friendships and relationships that start to get a little hairy. Votes: 0

I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it. Votes: 0

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please. Votes: 0

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too. Votes: 0

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. Votes: 0

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath. Votes: 0

These are friendships that these girls are making that will be a lifetime and they're doing things that are so abnormal and to such a high level, that there's a bond that's like no other. Votes: 0

It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others. Votes: 0

Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled. Votes: 0

I try to cultivate friendships, because they are great assets. And I tend to make them last over time. Nevertheless sometimes they end mysteriously and you don't really know for what reason. Just like loves.= Votes: 0

If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the conversation you're having with actual human beings happen to dovetail. Votes: 0

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them. Votes: 0

For now I sit on my final island of the present as my radius of memory shrinks; lost already are the islands of work, of old friendships...Other islands fade as I brood upon them. Votes: 0

I'm not super nostalgic for friendships I've lost along the way. I feel like, if they were truly meaningful and really special, they would still exist. I think we grow and change, and that's okay. Votes: 0

I love going out every day and training and being part of the team, and having friendships built up over a number of years. It's those aspects of sport that I feel are really important. Votes: 0