It's Better To Have A Few Close Friends Quotes

#1. Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.

Donna Roberts

#2. I am fortunate to have a lot of love in my life. I love my family, I love my dog, I love my close friends, and I absolutely love my incredible girlfriend.

Benjamin Stone

#3. Keep their friends close and their enemies closer.

Sun Tzu

#4. When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

Martina Hingis

#5. I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.

Khaled Hosseini

#6. Other people collected friends like badges but Lana chose only one - and that friendship was pinned so close to her heart that removing it had left behind a jagged tear.

Lucy Clarke

#7. Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

Max Von Sydow

#8. The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Jimmy Carter

#9. Do I not damage my enemies after i make them my close friends?

Abraham Lincoln

#10. I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.

Aisha Tyler

#11. Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

Jason Reitman

#12. Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written.

Jason Robert Brown

#13. Writers are always envious, mean-minded, filled with rage and envyat other's good fortune. There is nothing like the failure of a close friend to cheer us up.

Peter Carey

#14. I need a new friend. I need a friend, period. Not a true friend, nothing close or share clothes or sleepover giggle giggle yak yak. Just a pseudo-friend, disposable friend. Friend as accessory. Just so I don't feel or look so stupid.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#15. 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

#16. If only we could be honest, both admit our fears, touch one another...Then, it might not be so hard to die - in a hospital - with friends close by.

American Journal Of Nursing

#17. The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.

Claudia Rankine

#18. It is true that prosperity has many close friends; poverty, on the other hand, has only distant watchers!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.

Hannah Simone

#20. I've been lucky enough to be surrounded by close friends and family and they've definitely kept me grounded.

Taylor Lautner

#21. My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

Olivia Newton-John

#22. We always see the worst in our selves. Our most volnerable selves. We need someone to get close enough to tell us that we're wrong. Someone we trust.

Rachel Cohn

#23. At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

Daniel Nathans

#24. You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends.

Ashley Greene

#25. If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or somebody at work that you trust.

Hillary Clinton

#26. Tony Benn and I were very close, very close friends for 30, 40 years. We talked to each other a great deal, and we were great friends. And I was with him shortly before he died, talking about prospects of the world and prospects for peace. And I'm very sad that he's gone.

Jeremy Corbyn

#27. I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

Tyler, The Creator

#28. Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. (Prov. 17:9)

Scotty Smith

#29. I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.

Nathan Fillion

#30. Keep your friends close and ridiculously gorgeous guys who should be your enemy even closer.

Lisa Roecker

#31. Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

David Brooks

#32. I have three kids. I was blessed with very supportive parents and some close friends, and the people closest to me are my inspiration.

Christopher Gorham

#33. Most of my ex-girlfriends are still close friends. I guess when you are with someone that long, unless they did something really terrible to you, you remain friends. My real estate business is run by my best friend, who is an ex-girlfriend.

Ryan Kavanaugh

#34. Art saved my life in two ways. It made me feel special, because I could do things my friends couldn't, but it also gave me a way to demonstrate to my teacher that, despite the fact that I couldn't write a paper or do math, I was paying attention.

Chuck Close

#35. Many boyfriends or close male friends seem so different when they are by themselves, as opposed to when they are with a bunch of other guys. I think it has to do with the desperate desire on the part of guys to be seen as a "real guy" - a real man, a man's man.

Michael Kimmel

#36. Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

Joshua Foer

#37. Love is my family and friends. That close-knit circle that sticks by you through the years and through it all.

Allen Evangelista

#38. If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.

Daniela Bobadilla

#39. Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament.

Sally Quinn

#40. My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

Judd Nelson

#41. Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway.

Robin Marantz Henig

#42. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.

Sharon Salzberg

#43. I couldn't be his friend. When you were friends with boys, it never worked. It always turned into something more, and then when you got really close, the one person you swore you'd give your everything to, leaves.

Rachel Van Dyken

#44. Conniving at your friends' vices, passing them over, being blind to them and deceived by them, even loving and admiring your friends' egregious faults as if they were virtues -- does not this seem pretty close to folly?

Erasmus

#45. I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

Mohsin Hamid

#46. Well, you know that old saying, "Keep your friends close and make out with your enemies.

Shae Ross

#47. The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

Margaret Mead

#48. I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#49. It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends.

Winona Ryder

#50. Close friendships with girls come early in life. After thirty it becomes harder to make new friends - there are fewer hopes, dreams or anticipations to share.

Jacqueline Susann

#51. sometimes I wondered if the whole point of their friendship was just to post these images, to prove to the world that they had a bunch of pretty friends.

Jennifer Close

#52. I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#53. Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.

Derek Blasberg

#54. I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.

Nelson DeMille

#55. Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.

Camille Paglia

#56. Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.

Torrey DeVitto

#57. Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and the junk food as far away as possble.

Krista Scott-Dixon

#58. I have friends that tease me about 'Without a Trace;' they say, 'You're really good at saying, 'Have you seen this person?'

Eric Close

#59. Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.

D. Michael Quinn

#60. Once upon a time, I had two close friends. Shocking, I know, given my natural charm, but there are those who just don't appreciate my brilliance.

Julie Kagawa

#61. Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.

Ted Rall

#62. I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.

Emma Roberts

#63. I have a great support team. I have very understanding parents that do not put too much pressure on me, and I have close friends that I lean on for support.

Olivia Stuck

#64. When I'm writing, I am lost in my book. Except family and close friends, I don't care about what critics, publishers or readers might think.

Amish Tripathi

#65. 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

#66. For her, an orgasm felt more like a sneeze, certainly not the earthquake her friends described, and nowhere close to the shrieks of pleasure from the apartment next door. What would that feel like? To be so overwhelmed as to actually scream?

Cherise Sinclair

#67. My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#68. 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

#69. Every sorrow is different, but you get through 'em the same way. Plenty of rest, good food, and keeping your family and friends close by." She paused a minute. "A lot of prayer doesn't hurt either.

Shannon Hitchcock

#70. My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

Jeanette Winterson

#71. The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type ... Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

Brittany Maynard

#72. Our friends have left us
Perhaps we never saw them, perhaps
we encountered them when sleep
still brought us very close to the breathing wave
perhaps we search for them because we search for the other life,
beyond the statues.

Giorgos Seferis

#73. Many of my friends and colleagues are in the public eye, so they have to pay close attention to what they wear. But every woman needs to stay on her toes in this era of cell-phone cameras and Facebook.

Nina Garcia

#74. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

Katherine Center

#75. The starting point for building great relationships is making wise decisions about who we allow close to us. We need people who will build us up and take us forward, and good friends will do just that.

Brian Houston

#76. You do not have to marry in order not to be alone- all you need not to be alone is to have some other humans to be your companions and close friends.

Myles Munroe

#77. When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.

Kevin Hart

#78. I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.

John Corey Whaley

#79. Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

Amber Tamblyn

#80. Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

Christina Aguilera

#81. False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

C.N. Bovee

#82. I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

Jack Falahee

#83. I just invited close friends and family, the usual suspects whose opinion I value but who I know will enjoy the film [ Before I Go To Sleep]. I don't know how difficult it is for them to suspend their disbelief because they obviously know me and what they're seeing is not me.

Mark Strong

#84. I would never put my close friends or a real relationship on a show.

Kristin Cavallari

#85. I am really close friends with Roger Federer and also with Benoit Paire.

Stanislas Wawrinka

#86. I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Chuck Close

#87. I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.

Eric Close

#88. I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.

Veronica Roth

#89. Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer.

Nelson Mandela

#90. All close friendships are marked with competition. Our earliest tests are against our siblings and playmates, and some of that rivalry endures amongst friends into adulthood. Like dogs play fighting, you learn not to bite hard.

Christopher Bollen

#91. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Zack Love

#92. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger.

William Shakespeare

#93. I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

John Muir

#94. Love for me is family, close friends - an unbreakable, unconditional bond.

Xosha Roquemore

#95. Facebook is looking to help you distribute content to who you want to distribute to. Facebook gets a lot better if you put each of your friends into either your 'close friend' or 'acquaintance' list.

Robert Scoble

#96. I actually don't hang out with any celebrities. My closest friends are old friends. And my real close friends, none of them are actors.

Denzel Washington

#97. Friends share secrets. That's what keeps us close.

Sara Shepard

#98. Probably Darren Criss, yeah, we've become close friends.

Max Adler

#99. For summer, I definitely love doing stuff outside. I love beach volleyball if you're close to something like that. It's really fun; you can do it with a lot of friends.

Behati Prinsloo

#100. Ken was Mary's new boyfriend, a nice guy who made all their friends comments, "Oh, there he is. That's what she's been waiting for," as if finding your perfect match was a guarantee as long as you were patient enough.

Jennifer Close