Social Relationships Quotes

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.

I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.

If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.

Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.

I've tried to have a really normal life, and I have because my family treats me normal, and my friends treat me just the same.

I recognized that … there was a science of society as well as botany.

I think it is very important to have a life off the court, and to me, it wasn't that hard to balance tennis and a relationship.

I think all families are creepy in a way.

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.

If the ideas of any particular man are determined by his environment, then the ideas of humanity, in their historical development, are determined by the development of the social environment, by the history of social relationships.

Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection; the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

No man is an island.

The person who is ill not merely suffers pain but is rendered unfit to meet his ordinary social responsibilities; he is incapacitated for service to those about him, some of whom may be directly dependent upon him. Moreover, his removal from the sphere of social relations does not merely leave a blank where he was; it involves a wrench upon the sympathies and affections of others.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.