Quotes About Problems With Friends

#1. Don't discuss your relationship problems with friends. Your zombie problems are another story entirely.

Jesse Petersen

#2. I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

Helen Hunt

#3. I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Kirby Larson

#4. I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.

Bahman Ghobadi

#5. Given all the stress and pressure, some people would fake it. They'd want to join the club, so they'd get together with another lonely person and stage a fake soul mate encounter. They'd marry, hide their relationship problems, and struggle to present a happy face to their friends and family.

Randall Munroe

#6. The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of winning friends.

B.F. Skinner

#7. Guys have four personalities: the one they use with their parents, the one they use around other adults, the one they use for talking to girls, and the one they use for hanging with their friends. Leakage between the various personality types can cause serious problems.

Pete Hautman

#8. My first challenge was explaining Andover to my friends in Texas. In those days, most Texans who went away to high school had discipline problems. When I told a friend that I was headed to a boarding school in Massachusetts, he had only one question: Bush, what did you do wrong?

George W. Bush

#9. I think that in some ways everybody is like Roger. Everybody thinks that when their friends have a problem, that they know the answer and that it's much easier to analyze the problems of other people than your own.

Jennifer Beals

#10. I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

John Waters

#11. My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#12. Music is powerful, my young friends," she said. "It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

Sharon M. Draper

#13. Women and cars are alike. Once they start giving you problems, get rid of them.

Anonymous

#14. Unlike Charlie, I was incapable of making friends or thinking about other people and their problems. I was interested in myself, and myself only. Fr one long moment in that mirror I had seen myself through Charlie's eyes - looked down at myself and saw what I had really become. And I was ashamed.

Daniel Keyes

#15. Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

Jet Li

#16. If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#17. Going out?
Why?
I even don't have friends = less problems!

Deyth Banger

#18. It takes courage to trust God when unsaved family and friends think it is a bit radical or irresponsible to trust God with our problems.

Debbie Alsdorf

#19. But don't let them talk you into anything you don't feel comfortable with."
"They're my friends."
"So what?" He shrugged. "If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?"
"Why would they walk off a cliff?" I asked in alarm. "Is someone having problems at home?

Alexandra Adornetto

#20. Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#21. I had noticed, for example, how all my infatuations dissolved as soon as I really became friends with a man, became sympathetic to his problems, listened to him kvetch about his wife, or ex-wives, his mother, his children. After that I would like him, perhaps even love him - but without passion.

Erica Jong

#22. Emilia hooked her arm through mine, like we were the best of friends. "You solve problems," she said again. "I have a problem. Ergo . . .

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#23. My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

Chloe Sevigny

#24. Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run ... the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.

T. Harv Eker

#25. One of the biggest problems is - you know, I've got some Hispanic friends - is that a lot of those folks that don't know English, is primarily because they don't even know Spanish. They don't even know their own language.

Bobby Schilling

#26. Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

John Green

#27. My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved.

Colette

#28. To save face, it's better not to ask sex from the ex, but to give everything the axe.

Anthony Liccione

#29. One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

Kate Williams

#30. I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

Lina Wertmuller

#31. Best friends are the chicks who make your problems theirs so you guys can form a gangsta posse and beat those problems to hell.

Celia Kyle

#32. Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.

Julian Fellowes

#33. I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

Barbara Park

#34. I don't think that I look, act and feel younger than I am, I know I do. I'm not irresponsible, just hyper and active like a younger person is. I have a lot of younger friends. I don't have any problems in particular with people my own age, save that I sometimes think they are boring.

Rudy Simone

#35. As we progress through the Steps, we will discover that true and lasting change does not happen by trying to alter our life conditions. Although it is tempting to think so, outside adjustments cannot correct inside problems.

Friends In Recovery

#36. I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the half closet.

Tina Fey

#37. I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.

Gregory Hines

#38. I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking.

Tom Barbash

#39. Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?

Garry Shandling

#40. I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

Whitney Houston

#41. I used to think someone needed to be my best friend before I'd burden her with my problems or my tears. Now I think those interactions
the sobfest or therapy session
are the encounters that earn someone BFF status.

Rachel Bertsche

#42. It's not a problem. There are people out there with much worse problems than mine."-Cynthia
"Doesn't make yours any more fun to bear."-Liza
"No. But it does help with the self-pity."- Cynthia

Jennifer Crusie

#43. And maybe if I can find a way to stop being scared, I'll actually figure out how to make friends. To be strong. To stop wallowing in my own problems.

Tahereh Mafi

#44. MySpace is like a bar, Facebook is like the BBQ you have in your back yard with friends and family, play games, share pictures. Facebook is much better for sharing than MySpace. LinkedIn is the office, how you stay up to date, solve professional problems.

Reid Hoffman

#45. What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.

Alex Steffen

#46. I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our theme. We're really run by the people who use the site. We just run the infrastructure, and help out with problems.

Craig Newmark

#47. I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Nelson Mandela

#48. All problems, though appearing outside of you, must be resolved within YOU.

Vivian Amis

#49. To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.

Bill Bryson

#50. What are friends, anyways? You pick some people you have similar interests with, and you hang out and talk. You give each other pep talks and listen to each other's problems. I could replace most of Courtney's job duties as best friend with a book of inspirational slogans and a journal.

Dalya Moon

#51. I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.

Donna Karan

#52. We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

Rob Bell

#53. I think there's a really mature side of me that can deal with problems - but when I'm with my friends, I get to act much more kidlike.

Dakota Blue Richards

#54. You don't always have to solve your problems alone, you know. This is why people talk to their friends.

Stephanie Perkins

#55. Sex is not a wizard, whatever magical-seeming properties it might possess in its better forms. If your friend says to you, "You're being mean, you need to get laid," your problem is not sex. Your problems are that you might be acting like an asshole, and your friends are definitely idiots.

Katie Heaney

#56. One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.

Alexi Giannoulias