Israel Houghton Quotes

For being in a relationship or to be linked up with somebody, you need to have time. I hang out with my friends just at my leisure, but there's no time to get into any link up.

I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.

They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

One may get everything in life but to find true and good friends is difficult.

Aine plays a huge part in everything I do. We didn't study together; we didn't really have mutual friends, except for one, who had a party, and we both went to it. We met there and sat together for a long time just talking. We liked each other, and we were both trying to show that to one another, but nothing was happening.

People fall in love when they are working together constantly.

If we're friends with someone and attracted to them, we're going to want to take it further.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

I never have actually had a girl who's made me laugh before.

You can never have too many friends.

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

You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.

It's always nice to make friends; friends is good.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.