Top 100 Quotes About Not Friendship
#1. All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#2. Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough. Our relationships are negotiations, and that is not friendship.
Hill Harper
#3. The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Allowing a friend to careen toward self destruction is not friendship. That is a habit the United States needs to break as it pursues a richer and more deeply supportive relationship with Israel.
Stephen Kinzer
#5. At that moment there was total clarity.Life was neither love nor duty.Life was not friendship or loneliness,pleasure or pain.Life was red,liquid and sticky,and it leaked through Snape's fingers as he struggled to stem the exodus of life from his body.
Rannaro
#6. I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
Jane Smiley
#7. But power was not friendship. And these people were not my friends.
Leila Sales
#8. This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.
Hanya Yanagihara
#9. It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.
Sara Bonnett Stein
#10. To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, he had learned not to share evidence of his oddities as a way to distinguish himself from others, although he was happy and proud that they shared theirs with him
Hanya Yanagihara
#11. You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?
Rebecca Wells
#12. ... when people love you, they show up. Sometimes that means that they get to bail you out of trouble. It's not bad when that happens; it just means that you return the obligation when you get the chance. You be a guy who is present instead of a fuck-up.
Jeremy Bushnell
#13. Awakening Call: You're Not in love if it carries a burden.
Brook Tesla
#14. Besides,' she says, 'not every friendship turns into a romance. I haven't tried to kiss you yet.
Veronica Roth
#15. One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
Henry David Thoreau
#16. Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#17. I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.
Alan Sugar
#18. her interest was not the beginning of a friendship but more of a measuring. She
Alexander Chee
#19. Your love for your friend should be grounded in Me, and for My sake you should love whoever seems to be good and is very dear to you in this life. Without Me friendship has no strength and cannot endure. Love which I do not bind is neither true nor pure.
Thomas A Kempis
#20. A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#21. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.
Catherine Lacey
#22. Humility applied to convictions does not mean believing things any less; it means treating those who hold contrary beliefs with respect and friendship.
John Dickson
#23. The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George Hewitt Myers
#24. All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
Lois Wyse
#25. The strong bond of friendship is not always a balanced equation; friendship is not always about giving and taking in equal shares. Instead, friendship is grounded in a feeling that you know exactly who will be there for you when you need something, no matter what or when.
Simon Sinek
#26. An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth,
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#27. Some roads we travel in life can feel like the ones that might break us, but that's why God surrounds us with people who will cheer us on and wipe our tears and listen as we pour out our hearts. Because often, it's not what you say but what you do that really matters.
Melanie Shankle
#28. As a general thing anyone who is not your friend will advise neutrality while anyone who is your friend will ask you to join him, weapon in hand.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#29. Not my finest hour," he says, shaking his head.
"You realize you did it for no reason," I say. I tell him about talking to my dad and explain that I was crying because of that.
"That information would have been useful BEFORE I shoved him in the pool.
Heather Hepler
#30. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
R. K. Milholland
#31. Men are not from Mars and women are not from Venus instead we are all people. Deal with it.
Shahla Khan
#32. You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.
John Barnes
#33. I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.
Nancy Reagan
#34. It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
Henry Fielding
#35. If somebody feels a certain way about me and I feel like they're misunderstanding me, I don't need to explain myself. I just try to shy away from it and just pretend like it never happened, and try to rekindle the friendship and let him know that its not like that.
Kid Cudi
#36. I'm not that bad," he said. "I'm rich, popular. I have a sense of humor. I'm good looking, and not to mention I have a really big -
J.M. Darhower
#37. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
Sarah Jio
#38. Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.
Richard Paul Evans
#40. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
George Bancroft
#41. There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.
Janny Wurts
#42. The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.
Charles Spurgeon
#43. I can't shake the feeling that Parker just told me goodbye. Not goodbye to our friendship, because that will always be there in some capacity. But goodbye to the way we used to be. The way we could have been.
Lauren Layne
#44. LOVE IS NOT MADE UP OF OPITION
LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE LOVED BACK
DON'T LOVE SOMEONE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BENEFIT OR ACHIVE SOMETHING
Ralph Ramovha
#45. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.
E. M. Forster
#46. There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
Bertrand Russell
#48. I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart
Marc Wambolt
#49. There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends.
Thomas Fuller
#50. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E.W. Howe
#51. When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.
Shannon Hale
#53. A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
Hermann Hesse
#54. And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#55. Sometimes I feel that what used to be once casual conversations between friends are now being substituted with forced conversations containing none of the warmth it possessed earlier. It's better to not have any conversation at all than have forced conversations.
Adhish Mazumder
#56. I may not be happy with you right now, but I still love you.
Janet Gurtler
#57. Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.
Ted Rall
#58. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#59. For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
Henry Fielding
#60. They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.
Kamila Shamsie
#61. Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want.
Shahla Khan
#62. Sometimes love was not about winning, but about wise sacrifice and the realiability of friends like Arianne. Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.
Lauren Kate
#63. Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.
Thiruvalluvar
#64. Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving Thy strong regard for me, Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving; Let thy faith speak for thee ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#65. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Gautama Buddha
#66. I do not know how to thank you.'
'I can tell you,' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.'
'That will not be enough,' said Okonkwo.
'Then kill yourself,' said Obierika.
Chinua Achebe
#67. Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?
Nelou Keramati
#68. He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.
David Halberstam
#69. 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
#70. We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects." In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply "accept" imperfection when it is revealed to us - we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.
Ron Perlman
#71. Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.
Alison G. Bailey
#72. Kindred spirits alone do not change with the changing years.
L.M. Montgomery
#73. A good friend is the one who stand up for you and not the one who sells you out
Beta Metani'Marashi
#74. 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
#75. If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
Victoria Justice
#76. These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.
Suetonius
#77. So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?
Megan Abbott
#79. Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#80. Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Rino's mother is named Raffaella Cerullo, but everyone has always called her Lina. Not me, I've never used either her first name or her last. To me, for more than sixty years, she's been Lila. If I were to call her Lina or Raffaella, suddenly, like that, she would think our friendship was over.
Elena Ferrante
#82. 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
#83. There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
Jim Henson
#84. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#85. I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.'
'Treated like what?'
She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
David Nicholls
#86. I hate you! I hate you!" Hester was yelling
"Well I care about you, whether you like it or not!" Tom screamed.
Philip Reeve
#87. 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
#88. And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he was going to do now, she would not say 'be careful' or 'don't do it', but she would accept his decision because she would not have expected anything less of him.
J.K. Rowling
#89. We were designed to love and to be loved, to reach our dreams to unleash our potentials but not live in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Auliq Ice
#91. Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#92. An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.
Amy Poehler
#93. So much has been said between them that is is needless to add a marginal note. It is not for him now to gloss the text of their dealings, nor append a moral.
Hilary Mantel
#95. If growing up means not seeing one's family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#96. Friendship is not just about having fun, it's about supporting each other in time of weakness.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#98. The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.
Juliet Marillier
#99. I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don't vibrate on the same frequency there's just no reason for us to waste our time. I'd rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.
Joquesse Eugenia
#100. The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
Nikki Giovanni
