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Quotes About Acquaintances

Wealth maketh many friends.
~ Anonymous
Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.
~ Anish Giri
I've done some stuff with Glenn Danzig before, and while I can't really say that we're friends, we're friendly acquaintances.
~ Matt Skiba
You can never have too many friends.
~ James Garner
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.
~ Doug Baldwin
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.
~ Franz Kafka
Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them.
~ Arvind Parashar
Every new friend, in your life is 1% success.
~ Deyth Banger
When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances. They are all alike, I said to her. When I talk to one, I feel as if I were talking to the whole lot. But, my dear, said Marceline, you can't expect each of them to be different from the others. The greater their likeness to each other, the more unlike they are to me.
~ Andre Gide
There are people you've known a long time and you know you're never really going to like. And there are people that you meet and grow to like. Then there are people you meet and you like instantly.
~ Ann M. Martin
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson
The deep-cover team had chosen the apartment building because it was the biggest along Feaver's route to and from the office. Large was better, more an ominous. Living undercover, she was supposed to avoid making new acquaintances, since even the friendliest inquiries my trip you up
~ Scott Turow
I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people, so many of them like me, and attach themselves to me; and then I feel sorry when the road we pursue together goes only a short distance.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There was a time that crepuscular was mild, The hour for tea, acquaintances, and fall Away of day's difficulties, all Discouragement. Weep, you are not a child.
~ John Berryman
Mr. Renfield didn't like the Abernathys, exactly, but a funny thing about adults is that they will spend time with people they don't like very much if they think it might benefit them.
~ John Connolly
The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.
~ Humphry Davy
It is an important part of one's personal choices to decide to widen the circle of one's acquaintances whenever one can.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The same acquaintances who ignore or give even trouble to a person at the time of his struggle are often the first to surround and sound a bugle for him on his stupendous success. This is the level of double standard of the people.
~ Anuj Somany
A friend to all is a friend to none.
~ Aristotle
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~ Emma Watson
I am not quick to call someone a friend. It is OK to have acquaintances and be associates. We make these words sound bad, but it is about understanding everyone's place in your life. I have a great group of people around me. I value them more than anything.
~ Karen Civil