Quotes About Have Many Friends

#1. Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight

Agona Apell

#2. One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

Agnes Denes

#3. You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

Viswanathan Anand

#4. I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.

Karl Malone

#5. He didn't have many friends, but he valued his friendship with Angel. She was kind and giving and one of the few women who didn't look at him like he was an un-caged tiger

Katie Reus

#6. I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Barry Eisler

#7. I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

Ian Rankin

#8. I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.

Riccardo Tisci

#9. I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.

Asif Ali Zardari

#10. I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

Ed Harris

#11. In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Mary Wesley

#12. I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.

Billy Graham

#13. I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

H. G. Bissinger

#14. I don't have many friends.

Guy Pearce

#15. I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.

Dominick Dunne

#16. Back when I was in elementary school, I didn't have many friends.

Israel Broussard

#17. A rebel to what's cool, I don't follow trends, maybe that's why I don't have many friends, but I know my destination.

Delano Johnson

#18. The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.

Wilt Chamberlain

#19. You want to know why I don't have many friends here? At least not ones that count, according to your fucking standards handed down from on high, princess? Because I figured it out. What the difference is between friends and casual acquaintances. Between lovers and fuck buddies.

Amy Jo Cousins

#20. I'm not so Hollywood; I live in New York, so it's very normal. I don't have many friends in the industry. My friends come from all sorts of different backgrounds and careers.

Michelle Monaghan

#21. I need to add pictures for two of my books. I enjoygGoodreads but don't understand it all. Have many friends on here Sorry 1 book is listed three times.

Betty Inabnitt

#22. I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

Henry Rollins

#23. I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.

Conor Oberst

#24. All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture ... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all ... I have many friends who are Jews.

Anastas Mikoyan

#25. Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.

Mireille Guiliano

#26. I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s.

Lana Del Rey

#27. I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.

Keith Stanfield

#28. I don't even have many friends anymore because I backed away from them. When things went wrong for me I didn't want them to have any part of my trouble.

Betty Hutton

#29. I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

Milla Jovovich

#30. I don't have many friends, but I think you're one of them. And friends don't send friends to get their souls sucked out.

Alexis Hall

#31. When you don't have many friends and you don't have a social life you're kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There's a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you're part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

Tim Burton

#32. You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry.

Kabir Bedi

#33. Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips

#34. My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'

Pink

#35. I have many friends of other religions, and I am satisfied that they are very conscientious, good people who are trying to do good. I appreciate that.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#36. I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.

Bojana Novakovic

#37. Truly honest people don't have many friends, but they do have real friends

Steven Aitchison

#38. A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

Clarence H. Burns

#39. I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.

Madonna Ciccone

#40. I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

Anthony Hopkins

#41. Having been bullied growing up, it's something that's really near and dear to my heart. You probably won't have many friends on Snapchat if you're being a jerk.

Evan Spiegel

#42. As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. -Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris

Ovid

#43. So it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone. We may have many friends, love, kindness, sympathy and charity, to smooth our pathway in everyday life, but in the tragedies and triumphs of human experience, each mortal stands alone.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#44. I have many friends who do not believe in luck; they believe in blessings. Likewise, I do not believe in coincidences; I believe in miracles.

Jane Seymour

#45. I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#46. I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

Mike Vogel

#47. Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.

Eraldo Banovac

#48. I had a lot of encouragement and tolerance from my parents, but I also have many friends who didn't get that from their parents and in a way they have more strength from spending years where nobody believed in them.

Michel Gondry

#49. My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of their 'Fight Song' stories; I have been so inspired by so many of them.

Rachel Platten

#50. I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account

W. Somerset Maugham

#51. I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#52. I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

Brooke Shields

#53. I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

Maggie Smith

#54. So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.

Jane Siberry

#55. Hi, I'm Jane. I'm twenty-four and I have a similar experience with Tinder where I was, like, at a party with friends and they were like, "This is the funnest game ever. Let's play this." And I downloaded it. And then, like, started seeing way too many people I knew. So I deleted it.

Aziz Ansari

#56. Most actors are lucky to ever get a job, period. I never forget that, because I have so many actor friends in L.A., and most of us barely ever work. And those of us that do, it's still only 60 days out of the year that we're actually on camera. It's an absurdly low number.

Emile Hirsch

#57. DJ Qualls and I have been best friends for I don't even know how long - since I was a kid, 14, 15, many, many years.

Nikki Reed

#58. Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'

Beth Ditto

#59. Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.

Aaron Swartz

#60. If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

Dale Carnegie

#61. After all, people are people. Many become friends with their coworkers. Many have worked with their coworkers at previous companies.

Eric Mosley

#62. I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

Zoe Marriott

#63. You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

Bill Cosby

#64. Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.

Wally Schirra

#65. Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

Eric Brown

#66. For the country was so rejoiced at the death of the giants, and so many of their lost friends had been restored to the nobility and men of wealth, that the gladness surpassed the grief. "Ye have indeed left your lives to your people, my great brothers!

George MacDonald

#67. God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.

Billy Graham

#68. Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].

Charlize Theron

#69. There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Boris Yeltsin

#70. Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

Lex Luger

#71. In person I don't have that many friends. I'm a pretty tight-knit guy with the people that I know. Offline, I have no more than four or five friends.

Tom Anderson

#72. I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

Leona Lewis

#73. 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

#74. I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

Cory Booker

#75. In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.

Os Guinness

#76. I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

Dylan O'Brien

#77. Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

Charles Taze Russell

#78. I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

Tony Abbott

#79. Do have a mind of your own. This is not just a spiritual matter only, but one which concerns ordinary manliness. I would do many things to please my friends, but to go to hell to please them is more than I would venture.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#80. There are so many musicians, friends of mine, who play shows for ten people a night, or always desperately wanted a record contract. So even if every person on the planet loathes me, I have nothing to complain about. My job is not a bad job, so I can't complain.

Moby

#81. I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

Kate Mara

#82. Glamour is fueled by the dreams and imagination of mortals. Writers, artists, little boys pretending to be knights - the fey are drawn to them like moths to flame. Why do you think so many children have imaginary friends?

Julie Kagawa

#83. I am happy that I have so many friends all over the world who contributed to my research work, and I believe that also in the future, basic research offers the best opportunity of reaching across borders and overcoming ideological barriers.

Klaus Von Klitzing

#84. I had a great acting teacher in high school. But I didn't like acting because it took too many people to get the job done. You have to talk to too many people and listen to others' opinions. With music, you get a few friends together and just make it.

Hugh Dillon

#85. If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.

Dambisa Moyo

#86. I have many gay friends who don't support gay marriage either.

Lucinda Creighton

#87. There are so many Al Anon fans and friends who have shown me wonderful love, prayers, thoughts! I thank everyone for this. It feels great to have wonderful people behind you, pushing and praying for you. Mostly, I don't want to let myself down, but they encourage me not to let them down.

Steven Adler

#88. It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of.

Randy Milholland

#89. The US remains an object of fascination for me, and the subject of much study, but while many of my friends etc. are American and I have no plans at present to move elsewhere, I consider myself a permanent outsider.

Luc Sante

#90. My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

Dorothy Dunnett

#91. One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

Jean De La Bruyere

#92. May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends,
And many books, both true.

Abraham Cowley

#93. Too many Christians have a commitment of convenience. They'll stay faithful as long as it's safe and doesn't involve risk, rejection, or criticism. Instead of standing alone in the face of challenge or temptation, they check to see which way their friends are going.

Charles Stanley

#94. You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.

Ernst Zundel

#95. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

Jo Brand

#96. John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

Jeremy Piven

#97. I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

Stanley Donen

#98. There aren't really many compliments flying around with me and my friends. It's a lot of tough love. But you know, that love is there, and if you need to have a serious conversation, you just gotta wait for the right time to do it.

Mark Wahlberg

#99. My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

Steve Nash

#100. He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Diogenes Laertius