Friendships Over Quotes

#1. 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.

Reese Witherspoon

#2. 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.

Jamie Farr

#3. 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.'

Kelly Corrigan

#4. There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

Donald Johanson

#5. Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

William James

#6. I said, wouldn't it be nice, instead of having these women fight with each other over men, which seems to be more of a cliche, wouldn't it be wonderful if they were the true comrades and it took these men much more time to infiltrate their friendships.

Jennifer Beals

#7. 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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#8. After all, you couldn't go through life rolling your friendships into one gigantic snowball. You wanted different kinds of friendships, with different kinds of people.

Maud Hart Lovelace

#9. The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. that sometimes marriages are like friendships that get tested, and people have to work through things.

R.J. Palacio

#11. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. 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.

W. Somerset Maugham

#13. One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Carroll O'Connor

#14. [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.

Gerard Butler

#15. As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. 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.

Art Buchwald

#17. 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.

Rajneesh

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

Charles Dickens

#19. A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. 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.

Walter Savage Landor

#21. The coolest thing about fandom is the friendships made along the way with people who share your passions.

Jacquelyn Middleton

#22. Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.

Celia Brayfield

#23. Over the years, I have created close friendships with many successful men, many of whom I have made a lot of money for through deals that I brought to them or business counsel that I have provided.

Carol Roth

#24. The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

Peter Morgan

#25. She was clean: no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of flaccid tattoos droop like moth-eaten upholstery over poorly stuffed biceps and saggy asses?

Jennifer Egan

#26. We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It's when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life.

Anthony Liccione

#27. I'm just talking specifically of women's friendships. If two women go to a bar and they are fighting over men, it makes it much easier for the men. If two women are very close and they act as it makes it very difficult for the men to pull one over on anybody.

Jennifer Beals

#28. I didn't realize it was possible to obsess over a girl as much as you can over a boy.

Daria Snadowsky

#29. Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

Honore De Balzac

#30. 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.

Brian O'Driscoll

#31. Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. 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.=

Dacia Maraini

#33. Sympathizing over the behavior of men is the baking soda of women's friendships, it seems,the thing that makes them bubble and rise.

Barbara Kingsolver

#34. A library always housed a trove of undiscovered friendships and forays, and a bookstore, a place where those temporary connections might become a constancy, must always hold a charm over any scholar's heart.

Michelle Franklin

#35. Most of my good friends are my friends from high school or childhood, and they're not actors - they have 9-to-5 jobs. But I've obviously, over time, developed friendships with actors. It's two completely different worlds.

Emily Meade

#36. Even when I'm alone I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships - and nice, jolly little times with people.

L.M. Montgomery

#37. 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.

Roxane Gay

#38. My deepest adult friendships have always bubbled up from the spring of shared enthusiasm over mountains climbed, sunsets watched, or lakes paddled. The lessons of the wilderness have not always been easy, but they have been profound.

Ann Linnea

#39. People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

Anthony Liccione

#40. The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.

Anna Quindlen

#41. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine

Diane Griffith

#42. And I became fixated, too, upon Katharine Hepburn's famous Fred and Ginger theory: He gives her class, she gives him sex. Was this a general rule? Did all friendships - all relations - involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power?

Zadie Smith

#43. Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone's friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. 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.

Joanne Harris

#45. If someone asked you what the greatest good on this earth is, what would you say? An epic surf session? Financial security? Health? Meaningful, trusting friendships? Intimacy with your spouse? Knowing that you belong? The greatest good on this earth is God. Period. God's one goal for us is Himself.

Francis Chan

#46. It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

Fay Wray

#47. Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#48. Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

Dan Buettner

#49. No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God's eyes." Beatrix continued, "nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Euripides

#51. Friendships between races, Ewing, can never surpass the affection between a loyal gun-dog & its master.

David Mitchell

#52. While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.

Kyrsten Sinema

#53. There are silver ships
There are gold ships,
But there are no ships
Like friendships.

W. Mitchell

#54. 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.

Bell Hooks

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

Kurt Cobain

#56. Let's still be friends (things that are never true in a break up, but you have to say).

Lauren Leto

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

Apolo Ohno

#58. Sometimes friendships go bad, she tells herself. Relationships soften and rot like old fruit. They have their time, and then they shrivel and grow putrid. She

Jennie Fields

#59. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg

#60. I've enjoyed my time in the American League, the fans of Southern California and other friendships.

Joe Torre

#61. I have found that the platonic affection
in friendships and familial
love for children can be relied upon
with certainty to lift the bruised soul
and repair the wounded spirit

Maya Angelou

#62. Dates were like deep friendships filmed in timelapse, one-night stands were like express-courtships from courtship to dissolution... When I'd entered my last relationship at twenty, we'd all been new and shiny. Now I was meeting people who had... stories.

Anya Ulinich

#63. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.

Ben Tolosa

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

Livy

#65. 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.

Jim Abbott

#66. 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.

John O'Donohue

#67. It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

Steven Spielberg

#68. I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Alanis Morissette

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

Julie Andrews

#70. Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.

Amy Dickinson

#71. 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.

Charlotte Sophia Kasl

#72. But receive much less social support from friendships

Jared Diamond

#73. It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

Anne Roiphe

#74. There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#75. I was bullied from grade one to six. Even middle school was tough for me. Everyone had these pre-existing friendships, and I was the new kid, who was acting, so that didn't help much either. It was really tough.

Devon Bostick

#76. Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs.

Tom Rath

#77. I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough they won't leave, and fearing that it's a matter of time before they figure me out and go.

Shauna Niequist

#78. 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.

Eliezer Yudkowsky