Top 100 Not Friend Quotes
#1. Ish #211 Your child is your parental obligation, not friend.
Regina Griffin
#2. I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
Eve Ensler
#3. Don't readjust your contacts. No, that is not the slow hyena from The Lion King. That is my four-pound best friend.
Mamrie Hart
#4. Stop saying you're not racist because you have a friend that's black. That's like saying you're not a pedophile because you have a friend that's a kid.
Daniel Tosh
#5. Let us love and respect each other as a friend, not stranger.
Debasish Mridha
#6. The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
Tony Kushner
#7. Until you can see everything in the world as your friend, your work is not done.
Byron Katie
#8. The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect or confined at a point somewhere along a gradual pathway toward perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment.
Hermann Hesse
#9. The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.
Steve Biddulph
#10. Even when a friend does something you do not like, he continues to be your friend.
Genghis Khan
#11. When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp ...
James Russell Lowell
#12. I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.
Diego Rivera
#14. Witches, wolves, and moral friend There is horror that does not end War is waged and battles fought But have you stopped to count the cost? We are the ones backed by right We must strike with bold and might The cursed ones blamless be Warm them of the Hunters you see
Nancy Holder
#15. It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
Bliss Carman
#16. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing ... not healing, not curing ... that is a friend who cares.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#17. The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.
Charles Spurgeon
#18. Yashvin, a gambler and a rake, a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles, Yashvin was Vronsky's greatest friend in the regiment.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. A Lithuanian friend asked me what am I doing in Lithuania. If I knew the answer I would probably not be in Lithuania talking to her.
Robin Sacredfire
#20. When he'd made it thirty strides or so Logen turned around and looked back. The pot was sitting forlorn by the lake, already filling up with rainwater. They'd been through a lot together, him and that pot. "Fare you well, old friend." The pot did not reply.
Joe Abercrombie
#21. Happy Holidays
Is it not this day to smile?
Is it yet a time to give?
Is this friend as old as good?
Is my family so well?
Santa is just on his way,
Bringing gifts and love tonight,
Have a prosperous New Year!
And a happy day to last!
J.M.K. Walkow
#22. Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.
Joe Brainard
#23. The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend.
Bhartrhari
#24. I want you, Isis. Not as a friend. Not as an enemy. But as the most beautiful girl I've ever known.
Sara Wolf
#25. I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
Chavela Vargas
#26. If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
William Shakespeare
#27. Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Phil Crosby
#28. Are ... you okay?" Mark asked, hoping his friend was just tired. "I'm not," the Toad answered, his face quivering as if he were about to cry. "I'm not, Mark. I'm not okay at all. There are things living inside my skull.
James Dashner
#29. And your people tried to kill my best friend, so you'll forgive me if I'm not overly keen on learning the secret handshake."
She shook her head sadly. "You should be going on dates and hanging out at the mall. Not wearing stakes on your belt."
I shrugged one shoulder. "The mall sucks.
Alyxandra Harvey
#30. What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?'
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end.
Sarah J. Maas
#31. I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.
Stephen Pagliuca
#32. Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we ... recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#33. My friends call me by my name."
"You don't have any friends."
"I don't want you to be my friend, Selia, or my servant, not now. I thought you were both. You have let me know I was wrong. So are you to treat me so. You are wrong.
Shannon Hale
#34. Some things a man should tell his wife, Some things to friend and some to son; All these are trusted. He should not Tell everything to everyone.
Sunita Parasuraman
#35. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.
Osunsakin Adewale
#36. Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him.
Ellen G. White
#37. My thought for today: Writing a letter to a friend today has helped clear a lot in my mind. It has taught me not to go on the defensive, instead to poke two fingers up to my critics who have no idea what restrictions there are when it comes to writing about a cold case".
Monica Weller
#38. But, Bubba? Aren't you and Mark friends? (Nick)
Ah, hell no. Mark's not my friend, he's my minion. (Bubba)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#39. A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#40. I googled "what to do when your future werewolf mate/boyfriend/best friend courts you and brings you a dead rabbit." First, there was a lot of porn. Then I found a recipe for Maltese rabbit stew. It was delicious. The stew, not the porn. The porn was weird. GORDO
T.J. Klune
#41. friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. HENRI NOUWEN
Laura Petherbridge
#42. Liam, if you hurt my sister, best friend or not, I will kill you.
Kirsty Moseley
#43. My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction.
"Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.
Mina Loy
#44. Howidoono?" Dee tries to ask, but there's a mound of Brown Butter Almond Brittle ice cream on her tongue. "How did you know I needed this?" He gives her an "oh please" look. "I have a sister and a girl best friend. This is not amateur hour.
Emery Lord
#45. You don't have to date me, just don't date her. Please, as your friend, I'm begging you not to date someone who doesn't appreciate you.
Cammie McGovern
#46. Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers.
Agatha Christie
#47. Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there ... when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes ... you don't know what that's like.
J.K. Rowling
#48. She realized with a sort of depressed relief that she had no close friend to call, to tell them not to worry about her.
Catherine Coulter
#49. For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
Nigel Dennis
#50. I am never lonely when I am praying, for this brings me into companionship with the greatest friend of all - Jesus Christ. He said, "I call you not servants; ... but ... friends" [John 15:15 KJV].
Billy Graham
#51. The open road. Seemingly my only friend for years upon end since leaving war. The road embraced me, let me breathe, and more importantly, did not judge me.
M.B. Dallocchio
#52. A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.
Chanakya
#53. In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.
Paul Johnson
#54. The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.
Sydney J. Harris
#55. Can you truly tell me, you with your heart leaping over itself in fright, that you can be my lover? My friend and helpmeet, my comfort and passion? Because I would not accept less.
Andrea K. Host
#56. I do not need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Jeff Wheeler
#57. We just became very good friends [ with Dwight Eisenhower ], we played golf, we played heart exhibitions. Then his doctor said he should not play golf anymore.
Arnold Palmer
#58. No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
Plautus
#59. There's nothing sweeter than a real friend:
Not only is he prompt to lend
An angler delicate, he fishes
The very deepest of your wishes,
And spares your modesty the task
His friendly aid to ask.
A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear,
When pointing at the object dear.
Jean De La Fontaine
#60. This changes nothing. It can't. You are my friend, my king,but that's ... All you can be."
He nodded, but it was a gesture that indicated that he heard her, not that he agreed, which was abundantly clear as he said, "And you are my queen, my savior, my partner
and that's everything.
Melissa Marr
#61. In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'friends' no longer mean what they used to. Networks don't exist on LinkedIn. A community is not something that happens on a blog or on Twitter. And a friend is more than someone whose online status you check.
Simon Sinek
#62. I won't do anything Sara; this is not me trying to get into your pants, or to rekindle what we had. This is just me concerned over a friend I know for a long time and don't want to lose to a crazed lunatic.
Nicole Kiefer
#63. I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.
Laurence J. Peter
#65. Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.
Lydia Sigourney
#66. You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.
Zooey Deschanel
#67. Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
Zig Ziglar
#68. Pas encore. Qa m'amuse."
"Really, Poirot!"
"Yes, my friend. I grow old and childish, do I not?
Agatha Christie
#69. Not only does he reduce my best friend's emotional state to something akin to an annoying rash, he also plants a new seed in my already overcrowded brain
Sarah Ockler
#70. If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye
Philip Larkin
#71. Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.
Brooke Shields
#72. One very gratifying compliment I sometimes hear is that women want to be my best friend. This endlessly amuses my actual best friend, Jocelyn, because in her estimation I'm 'a good friend, but not that great.
Mindy Kaling
#73. You're not my best friend. You're my sister, and that's more.
Jenny Han
#74. Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable
"
"He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.
Cassandra Clare
#75. I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.
John Green
#76. The 'Aladdin' thing - that's not work; that's just fun. Three days in the recording studio going mad, then the animators do all the work. Not a bad way to cash a large check, my friend.
Robin Williams
#77. Not everything that happens to us is within our control, my friend. Sometimes life gives us a swift kick in the ass, and we have to do the best we can with what we're given.
Felice Stevens
#78. It is not our responsibility to fix every mess. If someone steps onto the scary ledge of truth, it is enough to acknowledge her courage and make this promise: I am here with you as your friend...
Jen Hatmaker
#79. Mel Gibson is my friend. I love Mel. He's not the person that I hear people are often trying to diminish. Whatever his challenges are in life, he still remains someone I'm very close to.
Danny Glover
#80. Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
Jane Yolen
#81. Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.
Tim Ferriss
#82. That winter everything changed. Stella had lost not only her twin but her best friend. Bayonie was never mentioned again, so that, in time, Stella wondered if she really had ever existed.
Helen Laycock
#83. Then it is your opinion ... that a man should never-"
-Invest in portable property in a friend?" ... "Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend- and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him.
Charles Dickens
#84. You want a friend who's going to tell you the truth. That's what it's about. If you don't have a friend who's going to tell you the truth every time something comes up, you feel like he's not a true friend.
Donald Driver
#85. As the years passed, it became clear that Alio was a ghost, not an imaginary friend. Imaginary friends have no borders, but ghosts often do.
S. Vest
#86. Don't take pride to prayer. Take prayer to pride and eliminate it. It's not a good friend, actually.
Art Hochberg
#87. How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?
Barbara Samuel
#88. A friend asked the author,If this conversion you speak about is truly supernatural, and why is it not more evident in the lives of so many Christians that I know?
Ravi Zacharias
#89. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E.B. White
#90. The philanthropists inquire whether Transcendentalism does not mean sloth: they had as lief hear that their friend is dead, as that he is a Transcendentalist; for then is he paralyzed, and can never do anything for humanity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.
Mike Tyson
#92. Maura is the kind of friend I enjoy slapping doomsday scenarios with. She's not, however, someone makes me want to prevent stay happening.
John Green
#93. Look out for your baby or your friend, of course. That is easy. The test of moral fiber is to stick up for those you relate to least, understand minimally, and do not think are that much like you.
Ingrid Newkirk
#94. Jade, you know I'm not safe out there." He says it as if he's really in danger. "Did you see all those girls running around in towels and robes?"
I roll my eyes. "I swear. The insults are coming, my friend. So tell your ego to get ready.
Allie Everhart
#95. Many people can do all the wrong in this world and get away with it. I am not one of these people. I am a friend and servant of the almighty God Jehovah and always have the highest authority to answer to. With him...integrity is everything.
Timothy Pina
#96. "I can't sleep" answered the nervous one.
"Why not?" asked the friend.
"I am carrying so much cotton that I can't sleep thinking about. It is wearing me out. What can I do?"
"Sell down to the sleeping point", answered the friend.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#97. There are times you just want to put the tools down and say 'I can't do this, I'm done, I'm a failure.'I just want to say you are not a failure as long you not yet quitting your dream.Keep going brother, sister, friend is not over yet.
Euginia Herlihy
#98. I was never completely destitute. I think I borrowed money once off a friend, but I've always been quite careful with my money, having come from not much of it.
Naomi Watts
#99. Perhaps in every close friendship there is an element of, if not competition, then comparison. Perhaps that is one of the things that makes a friend belong especially to us. Somehow, in the secrecy of our hearts, a scale must balance.
Nancy Thayer
#100. We were friends for a year before we started playing music together. We both think it's pretty important. Tyler's my friend before he's a guy in my band, and when we talk to each other about things, it comes from a friend standpoint, not just a business standpoint.
Josh Dun
