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Quotes About Acquaintance

I got to know Sugar Ray but I certainly would not say we were good friends.
~ Dick Schaap
Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.
~ Liv Tyler
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
~ Richard Cecil
I wanted to meet Bob Hope, and I got to know him pretty well.
~ Norman Lear
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner
A stranger is a friend you have not met before.
~ Quince
Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?
~ Groucho Marx
I can tell from the glint in her eyes that she's at least an acquaintance of Dorothy.
~ David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.
~ Carolyn Wells
That way, you two can get to know
~ Jan Karon
Birisi hakk?nda devaml? bir ÅŸeyler duyunca, o kiÅŸiyi biraz tan?d???n? zannediyorsun. KiÅŸinin itibar?n? gerçek benliÄŸiyle kar??t?rmak çok kolay. Onun hakk?nda hiçbir ÅŸey bildiÄŸini anlamak için onunla ÅŸahsen tan??man gerekiyor.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
They say New Yorkers are always in a hurry; but I can't say as they've hurried much to make our acquaintance.
~ Edith Wharton
In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a 'friend' – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.
~ Edmund White
The morning after the battle, Kincaid came across an acquaintance and asked what had gone on with him and his unit the previous day. The man replied, "I'll be hanged if I know anything at all about the matter, for I was all day trodden in the mud and galloped over by every scoundrel who had a horse." He had no other story to tell. Macready,
~ Alessandro Barbero
giacchè è uno dei vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed essere odiati, senza conoscersi
~ Alessandro Manzoni
The two disciples, on the other hand, in going away after the personage whose presence had been so impressively announced, were not obeying an order given by their old master, but were simply following the dictates of feelings which had been awakened in their breasts by all they had heard him say of Jesus, both on the present and on former occasions. They needed no injunction to seek the acquaintance of one in whom they felt so keenly interested: all they needed was to know that this was He.
~ Alexander Balmain Bruce
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
~ Alexander Pope
It used to be that what was going to be written on my tombstone was 'Benjamin Wittes, former 'Washington Post' editorial writer,' or 'Benjamin Wittes, who wasn't even a lawyer.' Now it's just, like, 'Benjamin Wittes, who's a friend of Jim Comey's.'
~ Benjamin Wittes
When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
~ Wally Schirra
Baseball is all about relationships, and in some ways, what know you and who knows you.
~ Ryne Sandberg
I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.
~ Robert Trujillo
It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when occasion serves. Some one of them is more agreeable to him than the rest; there is something, he knows not what, pleases him, he knows not how, in her company. This I take to be what is called love with the greatest part of us.
~ Robert Burns
Great. I've made a friend.
~ Rick Riordan
Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.
~ Kate Atkinson (One Good Turn)