Top 100 Quotes About Having Friends
#1. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
Whitney Houston
#2. If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.
Elle Macpherson
#3. Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.
Devendra Banhart
#4. Having friends was really important, wasn't it? Even if sometimes they did stuff which upset you?
Helen Salter
#5. I remember having friends in high school that did the theater department stuff, and I always wanted to try it but never had the guts to. I was the class clown but could never really build up the courage to try it. I took one acting class and really enjoyed it.
Robert Buckley
#7. Having friends is how your life gets fucked up.
Jesse Andrews
#8. We hadn't spoken since the day he nearly shoved me off the roof, but we both understood the importance of maintaining the illusion of having friends.
Ransom Riggs
#9. Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
Trent Reznor
#10. It's just hassle of having friends and family an' that.
Karl Pilkington
#11. That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don't put you in mortal peril every once in a while?
Brandon Sanderson
#12. I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
Penelope Keith
#13. So every year when Christmas comes, I realize a new, the best gift life can offer is having friends like you.
Helen Steiner Rice
#14. The fun is having friends who help each other get free.
Ram Dass
#15. Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.
Gwenda Bond
#16. Sometimes, having friends who were like family was a good thing, and sometimes, it was like having an endless supply of very nosy, very irritating siblings.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#17. It's better being lonely than having friends that secretly hate you.
Nina Ardianti
#18. I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however, is that I have a steady stream of books coming to the house.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#19. I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I never had the opportunity to associate with anybody my own age due to my
career. I miss being around kids my own age.
Selena
#20. Nerds always say they don't give a shit about popularity; but - not having friends sucks. I never liked quote unquote cool kids, personally - I thought they were all dumb little shits.
John Green
#21. I could be your worst enemy. But i would rather have friends then enemies, and i go to great length to make that the case. There's much more reward in having friends.
Jared Leto
#22. I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.
J.K. Rowling
#23. Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.
Francine Pascal
#24. He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#25. Sometimes our preoccupation is on having friends. Perhaps we should focus on being a friend.
Elaine S. Dalton
#26. I wish you'd tell me when we're having friends over for luncheon."
"I would, if they would tell me.
Suzanne Enoch
#27. I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
Natalie Portman
#28. I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
Imelda May
#29. Most Americans watch Friends rather than having friends.
Robert Putnam
#30. I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.
Rene Redzepi
#31. The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don't bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you've made yourself a lonely nest to live in.
Laini Taylor
#32. Maybe it's not a choice between the two of them. Maybe there's a third choice. Or a fourth or a fifth. Or maybe it's not about having a guy right now. Maybe it's just about having friends.
Hillary Frank
#33. Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as far as I am concerned. But when those with me are fellow believers, how much greater that joy is, for we know that it's rekindled, one day in eternity.
James Stewart
#34. The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.
Gwenda Bond
#35. There is a perception that because individuals with autism have challenges in the area of communication and social skills, they are not interested in having friends. This is not so. Adults with autism may be socially isolated, but it is not always indicative of a preference for solitude.
Chantal Sicile-Kira
#36. Just having friends isn't enough, however. Our friendships should be ones that are pleasing to God and edifying to us as well as our friends.
Amy E. Spiegel
#37. When I arrived in New York, I was at the Drake hotel for five years; so, yeah, I really miss hotels. It's like having friends stay at your home. Every day you get to treat them, not only to dinner, but for breakfast, and everything throughout the day.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#38. We do not do well when we are alone for a long period of time, and having friends and family alongside us through life's journey makes the trip more enjoyable and successful. This is a fundamental truth of the world around
Anonymous
#39. It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.
Darren McCarty
#40. So this was what having friends involved. Maybe I should just get a pet rock or something. A plant, maybe. Anything incapable of answering back. Once
Kylie Scott
#41. In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.
David Spade
#42. If you base your identity on having friends, being accepted, and being popular, you may find yourself compromising your standards or changing them every weekend to accommodate your friends.
Sean Covey
#43. One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.
Louise Nurding
#44. Not being a big one for having friends, I had no idea what I was going to do with Aubrey, you know, to entertain him.
Susan Juby
#45. Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael Jackson
#46. Girls need to be strong and know how to stand up for themselves. Definitely having friends is a big part of it, so that they can help you through that, and a strong family.
Jenna Boyd
#47. I can see getting married and having a family, because it is the next thing on the agenda. You can only do this for so long. I'm old, and my friends all have kids. And I'm single, still blow drying my hair!
David Spade
#48. I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.
Daniel Craig
#49. 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
#50. It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.
Christina Hendricks
#51. 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
#52. I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
Fiona Apple
#53. Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.
Glenn Danzig
#54. It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
Adam Ferrara
#55. Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'
Julie Burchill
#56. Falling into a black hole would not be pleasant, having your limbs torn asunder and all the while appearing to your friends to be frozen in time just as you fell in
Joanne Baker
#57. Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.
Eric Clapton
#58. Some people only go to church for the social life. They like having all the friends in church or getting the praises of men by doing certain things, but they don't go there to actually worship God. They go there so others can worship THEM instead.
Lisa Bedrick
#59. I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.
Jill Clayburgh
#60. I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.
Barbara Windsor
#61. I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
Nelson DeMille
#62. A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
Kangana Ranaut
#63. He covered my hand with his. No matter what happens, we're friends first. I hope you know how much having you in my life means to me.
Cindi Madsen
#64. Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.
Pope John Paul II
#65. Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get.
Riza Prasetyaningsih
#66. I just want choices. It's not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; that's the last thing I want.
Bojana Novakovic
#67. I still love things that you don't even need to pay for. Going to the beach and being around five of your friends and having a good time means so much more than going out and spending hundreds of dollars.
Maria Sharapova
#68. Sometimes living with memory, with the thought of what friends, those who shared your soul and dreams, will do to you is worse than taking a bullet or having someone stab your flesh. There is a way of bleeding from one's soul.
Megan McKenna
#69. Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
Ellen Hopkins
#70. The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.
Nile Rodgers
#71. But to get to know God's friends is a very good way of "having" Him;
Teresa Of Avila
#72. Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'
Sean Covey
#73. I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get.
Eva Marie Saint
#74. Any time I can come to L.A., because I live in New York ... when I go to L.A., it really is about the people, having reunions and seeing my friends I don't see enough.
Donna McKechnie
#75. I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
Zooey Deschanel
#76. I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.
Eric McCormack
#77. Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#78. You get so much more out of life by being supportive and having loving friends who are there for you. Good friendships can make your heart light; it can make you feel giddy; it can make you feel like when you fall in love.
Poppy Delevingne
#79. My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
Natasha Leggero
#80. I've remained friends with all of them. We'remaking a fun kids movie and it's a comedy so we're just having fun and running around fighting these aliens.
Carter Jenkins
#81. You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.
Julius Erving
#82. The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.
Harold S. Kushner
#83. It turns out that having a best friend during adolescence is an important part of becoming a well-adjusted adult. Those without one are more likely to be bullied and marginalized and to carry these experiences into becoming disagreeable adults.
Daniel J. Levitin
#84. Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance
to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini
#85. Having two-faced friends is like keeping a crap in your life.
Jhinang
#86. That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside."
"Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.
Derek Landy
#87. I've had my own anecdotals with old friends, here's a gentleman quoted in the Times about, "I believe my government is suppose to protect me but it has let me down. I resent having to defend myself; I shouldn't have to but at this point I don't feel like I have a choice."
Chuck Todd
#88. My friends and I love having girls' nights in. We're hardly ever all in the same city, but when we're finally able to hang out, we make the most of it.
Karlie Kloss
#89. There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else.
Zooey Deschanel
#90. America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.
Lily Cole
#91. Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it
right, my friends?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#92. It's just that . . . when you have kids, it just changes things." "Do me a favor, Yates. Please don't give me that having-children-alters-you spiel. I listen to that crap enough from my painfully few friends.
Harlan Coben
#93. You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved.
Isabel Gillies
#94. I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.
Aeriel Miranda
#95. It is better to develop ideas with friends rather than the usual route of having a great idea and throwing it out into a production, and being surrounded by professionals who've been doing their jobs for years.
David Gordon Green
#96. I had a nutty career. I was living in New York. Then I got to an age where my friends and sister were having children, and I started to think I needed to orient myself towards a world where it could happen.
Lisa Cholodenko
#97. The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I have a beautiful deck that looks over the canyon and Los Angeles on one side, so it's very pretty at night. It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.
Sofia Milos
#98. It's weird because standup can be like therapy. Comedians can't be satisfied with just having fun with our friends. We've got to figure out a way to do it on stage.
Artie Lange
#99. Yet in the midst of all their prosperity, princes in this respect seem to me most unfortunate, because, having no one to tell them truth, they are forced to receive flatterers for friends.
Erasmus
#100. Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
Alanis Morissette
