#friend

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#cost #could #everything #friends #grow

Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#differ #friend #minds #opinions #scant

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me? ↗

— Rabih Alameddine

#fitting-in #friends #life #living #relationships

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ↗

— Doug Larson

#friend #overlooks #success #tolerates #true

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

Food is not your best friend or enemy. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#best friend #enemy #food #friend #your

We are constantly protecting the male ego, and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence, he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend. ↗

— Betty Dodson

#any #constantly #disservice #ego #get

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#always #because #been #diary #doing

I know Italians and I like them. A lot of my father's best friends were Italians. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#father #friends #i #italians #know

Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul, and you know you have been blessed just to know them. ↗

— Ashley Rice

#friendship #i-am-privlidged #love #my-friends #beauty