Richard Whately Quotes

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.

I'm very close to every girl in the locker room.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

We were constantly together. Anybody who had a boyfriend had to go through the Go-Go's first. It was a little too close for comfort after a while.

I always say that when you have friends that are girls, you tell each other everything.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

The Boss doesn't need friends, but the ones I do have, I keep very close.

I hang around a core group of people, a small group of people. They've been around me for a long time. They know my personality. They know me in and out, same as my family.

It's good to have someone on the tour so close to you - I mean, like, my sister. There is no one closer to me on the tour, so I don't need any other friends than her. We always talk about everything; not only about tennis, but about all the other stuff around tennis.

I have a very small list of friends with whom I gel and love to spend my time with.

And as a mother of three with a full-time job, podcasts gave me the illusion of having a vibrant social life. I was constantly 'meeting' new people. My favorite hosts started to seem like friends: I could detect small shifts in their moods and tell when they were flirting with guests.

I'm very close with my friends. If someone was to ever come along and be the right person, they would have to get along with my friends.

I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.

The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.

My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while.

How many people ask you to come share their life?

It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.