Samantha Power Quotes

I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.

I have this rule now that I keep people around me who I enjoy being with when I'm sober.

No, I never surround myself with people I hate.

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

Surround yourself with people you like and respect; surround yourself with people you just want to be around and keep making things.

I got the best of Rod. And I am fully aware that, even though I love listening to his stories of the crazy days, no relationship could really last then. I sometimes wish I could go back in time to the 1970s or 1980s, sit at a bar, and observe him, but I'm glad our time came when it did.

People who are alone all the time never grow. Those hermits just stay the same. It's only through relationships. Relationships change us and make us grow.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

People feel I don't mix much, but I'm working at it.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.

Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

I like spending time with my husband.

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to be successful in school or in your social life, and it's a reminder not to forget that each day people are getting older. Nobody is promised tomorrow, so we should make sure that we spend quality time with quality people.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.

The only achievement I am really proud of is the friends I have made in this community.

I meet people from different walks of life that I can have relationships with.

I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like. My younger brothers and sisters had friends, and I used to watch them playing to try to work out what they did and how friendship worked.