Quotes About Acquaintance

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

I didn't know V. S. Naipaul very well, and to a large extent, my acquaintance with him was limited to meetings at literary festivals.

I'm a fan of Miguel's; he's a friend of mine. I like melodic music, you know?

I know Gov. Christie. We've met a couple of times.

When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.

Colin Cowherd? I never met him; I don't know him.

I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends.

She saw that he had singled her out from the three, as a woman is singled out in such cases, for no reasoned purpose of further acquaintance, but in commonplace obedience to conjunctive orders from headquarters, unconsciously received by unfortunate men when the last intention of their lives is to be occupied with the feminine.

I confess the contrariness and mischievousness of his ideas but render our acquaintance the more attractive. I need the friction. Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them—and I am only confirmed in mine.

Credibility is the first thing you want to establish in any interaction, and, ultimately, no one will buy from you unless you establish trust. Having a mutual friend or even acquaintance will immediately make you stand out from the other anonymous individuals vying for a piece of someone's time.

We must live in charity with all men, but familiarity with them is not desirable. It sometimes happens that someone personally unknown to us enjoys a high reputation, but that when we meet him, we are not impressed. Similarly, we sometimes imagine that our company is pleasing, when in reality we offend others by our ill behaviour.

Oh, hello, Matt,' she said, not looking altogether thrilled to see me. 'This is James Sanderson.' 'Pleased to meet you,' I lied.

Both Kreizler and I had seen all this before, but familiarity did not breed acceptance.

But seeing someone is not the same as knowing them.

The same way others become people we select for inclusion in our lives: We learn enough about them, they pass several of our tests, they lose their anonymity, and we discover an acceptable degree of shared values. The

Depp and Phoenix had met, but they weren't close. On a professional level, Depp admired Phoenix's work, "there was a specific road he was on that I respected.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

She knows our rates.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Acquaintance, n: a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

I've known Laurence Fishburne for about twenty years.