Making Friends Quotes - Page 3

• That girl had a great way of making friends, and strangers, and anyone else who was around.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Girl, Sex

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• No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.

  Gregory Maguire

  Wise, War, Home

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Mirror Mirror: A Novel”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.

  Quintus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Issues, Keys

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• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, Thinking, Networking

  "Madeleine Albright on Barriers Broken and Barriers that Remain". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. May 07, 2012.

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• I have learned that some people who look fine are more crippled than I am, by fears they can’t explain. Other people are held back by shyness, or anger. In making friends, I see the way some people handicap themselves. I believe there are choices each of us make every single day. We can dwell on our limitations or we can push ourselves past them.

  Cammie McGovern

  Believe, Past, People

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• Finally, fighting for gay rights, speaking out in various places and making friends, men and women, was great.

  George Weinberg

  Friends, Fighting, Gay

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• Still uncertain as to our identity, we think that what matters in the work world is gaining attention and making friends. And these misconceptions and naïveté are brutally exposed in the light of the real world.

  Robert Greene

  Real, Thinking, What Matters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.64, Profile Books

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• As well as making friends with yourself, fundamentally one should be cynical and critical. This doesn't mean that you should punish yourself, but you just attack the areas of ego's indulgence. At the same time, you continue the friendship with yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Cynical, Ego

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• An open mind is the secret in
  making friends.

  Seungri

  Secret, Mind, Open Mind

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• I think I have to work to write a happy song. I write them carefully; they're simple and they're about when it's fun to walk down the street. You know? Because that's the best thing about when you're happy. It's just one little thing that makes you happy, and you're making friends. The kind of thing I can do is capture this moment.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand.

  Linus Torvalds

  Funny, Valentines Day, Witty

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• I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

  James Herbert

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• No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

  Robert M. Gates

  War, Successful, College

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• Kids can make fun of you for having the wrong shoelaces: that's just kids. But I don't think I had any trouble making friends.

  Mark Ronson

  Fun, Kids, Thinking

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• [Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Beautiful, Home, Car

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• I want to ask him where that kitchen is. Where he's from. But he seems guarded. Or maybe it's me. Maybe making friends is a specific skill, and I missed the lesson.

  Gayle Forman

  Skills, Kitchen, Lessons

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.125, Penguin

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• Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

  Jeffrey Klein

  Friends, Technology, Doors

  "As the World Turns" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1998.

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• Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

  Roxane Gay

  Lonely, Children, Reading

  "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

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• I looked forward to making friends at school, but I had come late and friendships had already been formed. I couldn’t find my way into their world. They seemed to have a secret code I couldn’t decipher.

  Gloria Whelan

  School, Secret, World

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• You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Hands, Want

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• The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the heritage of its indigenous peoples and provides justice and equity for all. I think reconciliation is about changing the structures that govern us and trying to influence opinion leaders in whatever way we can.

  Jackie Huggins

  Thinking, Essence, Australia

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

  Thomas Harris

  People, Enemy, Blind

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.301, Penguin

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• I won't lie to you and make you believe what's evil, is making love, and making friends, and meeting God your own way... the RIGHT way.

  Phil Anselmo

  Lying, Believe, Evil

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