Top 100 We Can Be Friends Quotes
#1. I've got a lot of books in my head, so hopefully we can be friends for a long time. With all my heart, mind, body, and soul ... thank you!
James Dashner
#2. I like you, Mark, and I hope you'll come see me again. You're a nice guy and you have an old soul. I hope we can be friends.
T.A. Webb
#3. I wish I never fell so deep in love with you and now it ain't no way we can be friends.
Trey Songz
#4. There. We can be friends now."
"Someone like you could never be my friend."
"Why ever not?"
"Because I'm a nice person, and you're a sick, twisted bitch.
John Hennessy
#5. He leaned in and kissed her cheek. Just the lightest touch of lips, but it took her breath away.
"What was that for?" She said, when she could talk.
He held out his hands to the street and the town. "See, the world didnt explode. I think we can be friends
Kathryn James
#6. So we can be friends, right?
Wait, what?
I stare at her, a frown forming at my mouth.
Did I..? Did I just get Friend-zoned?
Belle Aurora
#7. We can be friends. We can be anything we want to be.
Muriel Barbery
#8. A woman isn't just one thing. The past is in us, constantly changing us. Heartache and failure shift our perspectives as do joy and triumphs. At any moment, on any given day, we can be friends, competitors, or enemies. We can be generous or stingy, loving or petty, helpful or untrustworthy.
Lisa See
#9. You're wrong about me, because we can be friends if you let me try, now that you know how worthless I am. And you're wrong about Barcelona, too, because you may think you've seen everything, but I can guarantee that's not true. If you'll allow me, I can prove it to you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#10. Friends, huh?" Rush said, coming to stand beside me.
"Yeah. She's decided we can be friends," I told him ...
"I tried the friends thing with Blaire once. It lasted less than a week before I was stripping her naked in the back of my Range Rover. Good luck with that.
Abbi Glines
#11. So you think we can be friends?" Elle asked. "No jealousy? No awkwardness?"
"Jealousy is a sign of insecurity. He adores me," Juliette said.
Tiffany Reisz
#12. This is the second fucking time I've gotten shot when I was with you. I don't think we can be friends anymore.
Elizabeth Norris
#13. I'm glad we can be friends.
There's that word again. It's like a safe word.
Alex Rosa
#14. Borunia: Why do you want to be my friend?
Samarga: I want to know if we can be friends.
Toba Beta
#15. Man, if you're gay we can be friends. If you're straight, we can be friends. I'm not gay, I don't plan on being gay, I don't condone it and I'm not sayin' I'm against it.
ASAP Rocky
#16. People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone
Ai Yazawa
#17. The saddest thing is there won't be anyone to miss us when we're gone. No family, no friends, no one waiting at home."
"It's better that way," I said. "It'll be easier for me, knowing my death doesn't add to anyone's pain."
"If you can't give anyone pain, then you can't give them joy either.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#20. Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us ... leave. And if that happens, it's amazing the lengths we'll go to, to get them back.
Mary Alice
#21. We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.
Holly Black
#22. Good friends won't let you off the hook when you shouldn't be let off the hook. You can let fall the masks we seem to need to survive in a cutthroat world. There is a value of truth that we typically don't find in other parts of life.
John O'Donohue
#23. We can't be friends Cause I'm still in love with you.
Deborah Cox
#24. Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.
Robin Marantz Henig
#25. We can't expect our gay friends to always be single, celibate, and arriving early with the nacho fixin's. And we really need to let these people get married, already.
Tina Fey
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after. They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.
Alice Hoffman
#29. We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another's error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. Nick glowered at Ash. "Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew."
Ash laughed evilly. "Oh, absolutely, son. In fact, here come your new playmates now.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.
Claudia Rankine
#32. We owe it to our husband or wife, our fellow workers, our children, our friends, indeed to everyone who comes into our lives, to be as happy as we can be.
Dennis Prager
#33. 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
#34. A Dear John haiku:
This isn't working.
I hope we can still be friends.
Please don't kill my cat.
Tom Dheere
#35. I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.
Rashida Jones
#36. And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?
Matthew Quick
#37. I'm okay with who I am.You might not understand me. That's okay as I don't understand you.We can still be friends, we just have to accept our differences.
Tina J. Richardson
#38. Who's Bruce Lee?" Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore.
Tahereh Mafi
#39. I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.
Russell Brand
#40. Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.
John Mayer
#41. With our close friends, family members, and lovers, we hope to create a special world, one in which we can expect to be treated fairly, with care, tenderness, and compassion.
Sharon Salzberg
#42. I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.
Billie Jean King
#43. We can be much, much more than we were taught in teachers college ... more than stern ladies at the front of the room who teach children to recite by rote. We can be, we MUST BE, learning partners, champions, observers, explorers, friends- and , for these special hurt children we need to be family
Jenny Bowen
#44. This is the hill you want to die on? Really? A we-can-be-just-friends speech?
Lauren Dane
#45. Friends for life. These are the men and women that I cherish. Come rain or storm, we will always be there for one another. Maybe that's the silver lining after having to deal with shitty people: you can truly appreciate the good ones.
Brandi Glanville
#46. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, "Dauntless," "Erudite," "Divergent," "Allegiant," or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
Veronica Roth
#47. No, we can't be friends. You're my mom. You're what i talk to my friends about.
Ellen DeGeneres
#48. Can we really be friends with those who don't love the books that we do? Of course we can, but can we really be friends with those who don't love any books? I'm not so sure of that.
Ramona Koval
#49. What's so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn't any difference between people - well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?
Christopher Isherwood
#50. I think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. I think that we're really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social.
Mark Zuckerberg
#51. No, it's not okay. You said you wanna be friends, but we can't hang out?" I rolled my eyes, and Travis huffed. "Don't roll your eyes at me. Are you coming or not?
Jamie McGuire
#52. We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.
Lena Williams
#53. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, I really like you. A lot. But if you don't feel the same way about me, it's okay. Because you're really important to me, and I hope we can still be friends.
Jenna Evans Welch
#54. My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan Quayle
#55. As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'
Sloane Crosley
#56. Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.
Starhawk
#57. You and I, we can be the best of friends, but don't expect to find your fairy tale under my roof. You got me?
J.M. Darhower
#58. I think life always provides reasons to not die, if we listen hard enough. Those reasons can stem from the past - the people who raised us, maybe, or friends or lovers - or from the future - the possibilities we would be switching off.
Matt Haig
#59. But the best part of the evening was that there were whole hours when we sat around the fire pit and didn't say a word. We were together as a group, but they knew I needed silence. That can be very hard for friends.
Robin Roberts
#60. We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends.
Ben Tolosa
#61. Another funny thing about living in this city is how easy it can be to lose track of people. We're all so busy, always rushing around, so wrapped up in our own stuff. It stops occurring to us to check in with friends. I mean REALLY check in with them.
Ryan Kelly
#62. The sky is different here. I can count the stars we see upon my fingers. And as I sit beside my friends, I know I'll not be cast aside unseen.
Fox Benwell
#63. When will we get the chance to be just friends? It's never safe for us, not even in the evening, cuz I've been drinking. Not in the morning, when your shit works. It's always dangerous when everybody's sleeping, and I've been thinking ... Can we be alone?
Amy Winehouse
#64. Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other?
Shimon Peres
#65. Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child ...
Dennis Prager
#66. Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we had is broken into pieces. Not because of her, but because of me.
Cassandra Clare
#67. Are you for real? You can't use another friend? We can't be 'just friends'? - Liz. Hell no - Thoreau.
Whitney G.
#68. After he told them we were dating, which came out more like a Cultural Revolution confession than a family heart-to-heart, his father said flatly, "You can be friends with a foreign woman, but not date her.
Jocelyn Eikenburg
#69. Perhaps only when we've made our peace with our own selves can we really be the kind of friends who listen, advise, but don't judge, or not too harshly.
Anna Quindlen
#70. Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?
Ed Sheeran
#71. The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow
#72. you cannot leave
and have me too
i cannot exist in
two places at once
-when you ask if we can still be friends
Rupi Kaur
#73. Alyssa: This was a mistake. We can't be friends, Demetri. It won't work.
Demetri: I agree. I want to be so much more than that.
Rachel Van Dyken
#74. I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.
Chris Ware
#75. So. Monday. We meet again.
We will never be friends - but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.
Julio Alexi Genao
#76. If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.
P. J. O'Rourke
#77. Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?
Barbara Park
#78. You Like Music, I Like Music, I Can Tell We're Going to Be Friends
Rob Sheffield
#79. One of his friends, a marketing professor at Stanford, said, "Think about this from a marketing perspective. We can change behavior in a short television ad. We don't do it with information. We do it with identity: 'If I buy a BMW, I'm going to be this kind of person.
Chip Heath
#80. I'm not going out with you."
"Come on, it can just be a friends thing. If we choose to get naked afterward, so be it.
Julie Johnson
#81. We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.
Julia Barr
#82. We are who we choose to be, so we cannot change our past nor predict our future, but we can live each day to the fullest by sharing love and laughter with friends and associates.
Irma Schettini Caiazzo
#83. We can't be friends. I can't be friends with you, because I love you, and you've hurt me.
J. Lynn
#84. Actually, I think it's the opposite. We know each other so well there isn't anything left to say. Sometimes it's nice just sitting here with you all, thinking. It's only best friends who can be comfortable with silence, wouldn't you say?
Benjamin Wood
#85. We refuse to share resources; we govern irresponsibly. If we are confident, if we have some of our cultural values, then we would be more committed to assisting our people out of poverty and creating an environment that can make it possible for our friends to assist us.
Wangari Maathai
#86. What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#87. I can't pretend that I'm just a friend ... 'cause I'm thinkin' maybe we were meant to be.
Janno Gibbs
#88. I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them ... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
Tara Reid
#89. All apologies for getting most of your fortune buried under shit. I hope we can all still be friends.
Scott Lynch
#90. Well, that's splendid!" Mr. Goat said. "As long as we preserve our friendship - that's the important thing." "Yes!" Olivia said. "Exactly!" There was a pause. "Can I kiss you?" Mr. Goat said. Olivia groaned. "I just want to be friends," she said firmly. "That's all." "I
Simon Rich
#91. We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#92. We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.
Cyril Connolly
#93. Reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable. And diplomacy would be easy if we only had to talk to our friends. But that is not how one makes peace.
Hillary Clinton
#94. There is no us, and you know that as well as I do. There can't be. This is just a dream we're having. While all our friends sleep.
Ed Brubaker
#95. People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.
Evan Spiegel
#96. This is the Malachai? (Jericho)
In all his pain in the ass glory. (Acheron)
Are we through now, Dad? Can I go play with my friends if I promise to be a good boy? I'll even try and make it home by curfew. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#97. Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories ... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.
Mark Zuckerberg
#98. As I have gotten older, I am more of an independent woman, and my mom and I have our own lives, but we are still best friends and can be there for each other.
Amanda Fuller
#99. All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.
Dave Eggers
#100. We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.
Bernard Malamud
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