Top 40 Acquaintances Quotes

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, ‘Mew!’ than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other’s characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

With politics, everyone – your neighbour, acquaintances, anyone you ever meet – has an opinion. Particularly about what Arvind Kejriwal should be doing.

I have, like, two best friends, one that I grew up with who’s not an actor, and one that is an actor that lives near me in Wales, and they’re my friends. I don’t have any other friends, really, in the industry. I have acquaintances and people that I will go out for coffee with.

Sheamus and I did have a rivalry and then became a team, and we went from being work acquaintances to becoming best friends.

I feel like movie stars don’t have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

The people I mixed with in Monaco didn’t relate to my South African mentality or humor… Although I have met some wonderful people since I’ve been living in Monaco, I regard them all as acquaintances. I only have two people I consider friends here.

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can’t hide anything from them.

I’m close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that’s how I like it to be.

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

There’s a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or he’s eaten at my house, or I’ve eaten at his house.

I don’t have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they’re actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write – not to imitate my influences – but to write something that would live up to their standards.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

Parts of India treat Rushdie like he’s a rock star; we especially like boasting about him to our Western friends and acquaintances. It’s nice to act like one of the world’s most successful authors is as homespun as our handloom saris.

Facebook is made up of people you’ve met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 ‘friends,’ and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don’t really know them. If I’ve met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift away after a couple of years. Likewise there have been people who have begun as casual acquaintances but become more important with each passing year.

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends.

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven’t had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That’s nonsense. That’s not friends, that’s acquaintances. The word ‘friendship’ has lost its significance.

Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances… The only question I get now is, ‘How is music going?’ It’s an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It’s weird to navigate what that means socially.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I’m no better than a bag of potato chips.

Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I’ve done some stuff with Glenn Danzig before, and while I can’t really say that we’re friends, we’re friendly acquaintances.

It’s like, I go through life, and all these relationship that I have, they’re more like acquaintances than they are true relationships. It’s not fulfilling. I don’t know. It’s a very cold feeling at times, but it’s what I’m comfortable with.

I am not anti-European. I have many friends and acquaintances who are Europeans.

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I mean, life is kind of like your own movie. You collect your characters to play your friends or acquaintances, your lovers. You’re the casting director of your own life.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.