A Quote by John D. MacDonald

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

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Avoiding Dependent Friendships Like Marriages Unforgivable

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John D. MacDonald
American - Writer
July 24, 1916 - December 28, 1986

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Andrew Sullivan

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Mardy Grothe

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Julie Andrews

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement.

Kristin Hannah

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Tim Ferriss

Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

Robert Breault

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

Jorge Luis Borges

I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself.

Hugh Hefner

I go back to [the idea] that we are avoiding all of these unknowns, we're avoiding the night - most of us - we're avoiding the encounters, but we're also afraid to deal with something unknown, unseen.

Michal Rovner

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

Lady Violet

In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.

Carlton Cuse

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

Helen Van Slyke

What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.

Peter Drucker

There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros.

Gautama Buddha

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages who could end up completely dependent on the State, on the taxpayers - the American people.

Jim Inhofe

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