Top 100 As A Friend Quotes
#1. Met you as a stranger
Took you as a friend
Hope we meet in Heaven
Where friendship never ends
Raheel Sharif
#2. Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it ... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
Katharine Hepburn
#3. It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.
Lorii Myers
#4. I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.
Mohsin Hamid
#5. If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.
H.G.Wells
#6. Honey, I have a feeling he doesn't think of you as a friend. Have you seen the way he looks at you?"
She glanced at him and as if he could feel her gaze, he turned his eyes on her. Soft and hard all at once. "Yeah," Mel said. "He promised to stop doing that.
Robyn Carr
#7. What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.
Lewis B. Smedes
#8. Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.
Charles Caleb Colton
#9. We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
William E. Gladstone
#10. And yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.
Khaled Hosseini
#11. As a friend often said, India is a gymkhana club, where the people have the votes, but the politicians and the bureaucrats have the membership.
Tarun J. Tejpal
#12. Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.
Euripides
#13. I think of you as a friend. I used to think "friend" was just another word ... Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word's meaning.
Masashi Kishimoto
#14. When you get involved romantically with someone, sometimes you end up overlooking things that you could help people with better, as a friend.
Emily Bett Rickards
#15. I met you as a stranger. Now I have you as a friend. I hope we meet on our next walk of life where our friendship never ends.
I may not be the most important person in your life but I just hope that when you hear my name you smile and say that's my friend!!!
Taylor Swift
#16. You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
Idries Shah
#17. The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.
P.T. Barnum
#18. The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows.
We walk aware of what is far and close.
Here distance is familiar as a friend.
The feud we kept with space comes to an end.
Theodore Roethke
#19. If your words do not have a smile, if you do not talk heart to heart, and you decide everything with your head, it is better to keep a dog as a friend rather than you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#20. Paul and I don't see that much of each other these days, but I certainly still regard him as a friend.
Peter Asher
#21. Talent is a spooky thing, and has a way of announcing itself quietly but firmly when the right time comes. Like certain addictive drugs, it comes as a friend long before you realize it's a tyrant.
Stephen King
#22. As a friend, you first give your understanding, then you try to understand.
Robert Breault
#23. There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier of problems, our intervention as a friend to both sides is important.
Richard Holbrooke
#24. Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.
Stephen Burt
#25. The verb 'to love' in Persian is 'to have a friend.' 'I love you' translated literally is 'I have you as a friend,' and 'I don't like you' simply means 'I don't have you as a friend.
Shusha Guppy
#26. Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.
S. Truett Cathy
#27. I like you," he says.
My body is rigid.
"And I don't mean as a friend.
Stephanie Perkins
#28. An opportunist disguised as a friend can be every bit as dangerous as an outright enemy.
Ransom Riggs
#29. Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend.
John W. Snow
#30. The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti
Shavasti
#31. I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.
John Woo
#32. I still feel like an immature idiot inside, but I look in the mirror and - as a friend of mine once said- this old guy keeps getting in the way.
Ray Romano
#33. James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.
Stephen Rodrick
#35. Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.
Robert Brault
#36. This joy in God is not like any pleasure found in physical or intellectual satisfaction. Nor is it such as a friend experiences in the presence of a friend. But, if we are to use any such analogy, it is more like the eye rejoicing in light.
Augustine Of Hippo
#37. My mom is my best friend in the entire world. She is so cool and so inspiring. I've always been able to be open with her and talk to her as a friend.
Jessica Lowndes
#38. I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
Henry Rollins
#39. We need to get you to stop thinking of me as a friend, and start thinking of me as that incredibly hot mechanic you're sleeping with."
"You are a friend, why do we need to do that?"
"Because you're stiff as a board and not in the way I want you to be.
Elle Parker
#40. Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.
Robert Breault
#42. Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!
Rupert Brooke
#43. I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
Alicia Keys
#45. When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."
Roger Ebert
#46. In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands ...
Mary Higgins Clark
#47. Finding a life partner is like choosing a bed. You need one as a friend either in times of health or sickness. Freshness or weariness. Happiness or sadness. And we can be certain that we've picked the right one without having to sleep with it first.
Isman H. Suryaman
#48. I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.
Michael Rosenbaum
#49. It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it.
Stephenie Meyer
#50. I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!
Rachel Nichols
#51. As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'
Lawrence Block
#52. He is not to be trusted as a friend who illtreats his own family.
Aesop
#53. I know it's wrong because it's not what you want, but I can't seem to talk myself out of it. Every time I look at you, I want you. Not as a friend. I want you in my arms. I want you in my bed. I want you all the time.
Noelle Adams
#54. As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
Lauren Willig
#55. If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.
Francis Quarles
#56. My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
Rodney Dangerfield
#57. Am I becoming the kind of person I would like to have as a friend?
Donna Farhi
#58. She was leaving the world as a woman who had loved and been loved back.
She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother.
Khaled Hosseini
#59. The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.
Bianca Scardoni
#60. My definition of success? Being the kind of woman that I would want to have as a friend.
Maria Shriver
#61. When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
W.H. Davies
#62. I want to be with you. Not just as a partner, not just as a friend. I want us to be together, to be one, to be ... I don't know, a fucking couple.
Karina Halle
#63. Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book.
Jack Gantos
#64. Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'.
Dada Bhagwan
#65. Try as a meditation, to be with a stone, a flower or a tree, and you will find that they have consciousness. If you become friend with a tree, you will find that the tree will welcome you as a friend. The tree will be happy to see you.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#66. I want you with me, my dearest. Not just as a friend, though also as that. I want you as my wife. I want to know that we share our lives and cares, we share our health and ill, and we share our happiness and sorrow.
Aleksandra Layland
#67. Tobacco is the enemy, disguised as a friend, and if you are to win the war you must get to know your enemy.
Gudjon Bergmann
#68. Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert
#70. Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?
Michael Moorcock
#71. Topper was making her realise how calculatingly cruel and unsympathetic she was, how stubborn as a wife and inadequate as a friend. No
Thorne Smith
#72. I'll always love you as a friend. But it's more now. I love you as a man. My lover. As my partner.
Jennifer Probst
#73. Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
Vanessa Hudgens
#74. And thought about the female who, despite being human, he was beginning to see as a friend
Anne Bishop
#75. You can ignore me, Rachel, and you can try to treat me as a friend, but none of that will erase the fact that I think about kissing you every second I'm awake and dream at night of my hands on your body. And it sure as hell won't erase that I'm terrified by how much I like you.
Katie McGarry
#76. That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#77. Like" as a friend. "Like" as respect.
There are so many different kinds of "likes."
So when does "like" turn into "love"? Where's the boundary?
Peach-Pit
#79. Why?
Why?
Do you follow me and then unfollow me?
Do you add me as a friend and then delete me?
Deyth Banger
#80. Having you as a friend wasn't second prize. It wasn't something to chafe against. It was an honor.
Courtney Milan
#81. Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.
Alan Bradley
#82. Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.
Sloane Crosley
#83. He cares for me. He loves me. As a friend, sure. But love is love. Will
Leta Blake
#84. If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.
Dilip Kumar
#85. Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die. I, for instance, am very glad to have had a fox as a friend .
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#87. The greatest help you will ever have in this life is the Holy Ghost! Cultivate him as a friend and constant companion.
Barbara W. Winder
#88. Hey, GreenHollyWood the mistake was mine that I added you as a friend... I thought that you are my friend... but your irony doesn't end.
Deyth Banger
#89. I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.
Graham Greene
#90. I needed a song and I need a place to kind of get it out. John Paul [White] was there for me as a friend, and I really appreciated that because I just needed a place to go.
Matthew Mayfield
#91. So at twelve, I discovered that alcohol could dull pain and saw it as a friend. It was only in later years I realized that a friendship with a bottle can overnight turn into a relationship with the enemy.
Toni Maguire
#92. I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
Dick Gephardt
#93. I have argued with him on almost every subject in the world, and we have always been on opposite sides, without affectation or animosity ... It is necessary to disagree with him as much as I do, in order to admire him as I do; and I am proud of him as a foe even more than as a friend.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#94. I would count myself as a friend of Vaclav Havel.
Tom Stoppard
#95. Winckelmann wished to live with a work of art as a friend. The saying is true of pen and pencil. Fresh lustre shoots from Lycidas in a twentieth perusal. The portraits of Clarendon are mellowed by every year of reflection.
Robert Aris Willmott
#96. There are very few songs about just liking someone as a friend.
Demetri Martin
#97. It was like traveling back in time, meeting the person you used to be, and recognizing her as a friend.
Tom Perrotta
#98. Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith.
Pope Benedict XVI
#99. I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.
Kenny Chesney
#100. Your husband needs you to love him, but he also needs you to like him as a friend.
Emerson Eggerichs
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