Jennifer Haigh Quotes

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Between my past, the present and the future, there is one common factor: Relationship and Trust. This is the foundation of our growth.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

You're going to be friends with people longer than you're going to be teammates in this game.

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one.

The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

Love is the invention of a few high cultures ... it is cultural artifact. To make love the requirement of a lifelong marriage is exceedingly difficult, and only a few people can achieve it. I don't believe in setting universal standards that a large proportion of people can't reach.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

What matters is working with a few close friends, people you respect, knowing that if times did turn bad these people would hold together.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and therefore one party is probably to blame - more likely than not, both are. Sociality itself seems to become like a matter of sin, and inherently wrong.

Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff.

Love has so many unique yet consistent forms.

When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.