Top 72 Just Acquaintances Quotes
#1. Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Jay Leno
#2. Friendship is a two-way street ... if you're looking around your circle of "friends" and begin to realize that more than 98% of them are really just acquaintances, something has to change.
Michelle N. Onuorah
#3. There are no such things as friends. Just acquaintances who haven't let you down yet.
Malorie Blackman
#4. That was actually my motivation for creating Bigger Leaner Stronger: For many years now, I've had friends, family, acquaintances, and co-workers approach me for fitness advice, and they were almost always convinced of many strange, unworkable ideas about diet and exercise.
Michael Matthews
#5. When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. 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.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#7. A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes the similar nature works of others especially famous persons.
Anuj
#8. Acquaintances, in sort, represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.
Malcolm Gladwell
#9. Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
#10. Acquaintances come and go, friends are here to stay, but enemies accumulate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
Douglas William Jerrold
#12. When I meet some of my commuting acquaintances on the 6.21 home to Henley-on-Thames they occasionally enquire what I have done that day. I have been known to reply: 'I moved Africa 600 kilometres to the south.' They usually turn quickly to the soccer page. One
Richard Fortey
#13. 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.
Craig Roberts
#14. When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.
Steven Pressfield
#15. 10. I will never have a husband and all my female acquaintances will.
11. I WILL have a husband and he will be like my female acquaintances' husbands.
Mindy Kaling
#16. Discuss with your enemies,
laugh with your acquaintances,
share with your friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#17. You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.
Mallory Ortberg
#18. Thus, as I review the list of my friends and acquaintances, most of them emerge as stained with maniac stigmata of one sort or another. I begin to feel considerably reassured. The truth may simply be that human society is no more than a massing of lunatics.
Soseki Natsume
#19. One of the nice things - or not so nice things, depending on your perspective - about not having a cell phone is that you have to know people's phone numbers. Additionally, it keeps you from making meaningless acquaintances.
Penny Reid
#20. ~ A doorway can lead a person into new spaces, and can allow in loved ones, enemies, new acquaintances, or horrible things that we never dare dream about. They can remove us from that we've just left, or present us a firm wall of acceptance we may or may not wish to embrace.
Heather Lyons
#21. Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
Rachel Carson
#22. These incident acquaintances and the twisted stories that grew out of them, made John thinking that "Charles Dickens" was not just another pub, but a special place in the Universe, where life itself ties the knots.
Darren H. Pryce
#23. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build up in him a sense of being really at home in earth, which is just what we want.
C.S. Lewis
#24. We're just ... friends.
No, friends doesn't feel right. Not colleagues either. Not really acquaintances ...
OK. Let's face it. It's weird.
Sophie Kinsella
#25. I have a million acquaintances but just two to three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. :D
Ian Somerhalder
#26. Those who talk about books as commodities are inauthentic, just as those who collect acquaintances can be superficial in their friendships. A novel you like resembles a friend. You read it and reread it, getting to know it better. Like a friend, you accept it the way it is; you do not judge it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#27. Developing strong interpersonal relationships by creating lasting connections instead of just passing acquaintances will take your business to a new level.
Farshad Asl
#29. You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend: some can be friends or just friendly acquaintances.
Jane Lynch
#30. Those who put you in difficult times are enemies.
Those who forsook you in difficult times are acquaintances.
Those who stood by you in difficult times are friends.
Those who fought for you in difficult times are family.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. I'm Magnus." He smiled, showing blinding white teeth.
"Magnus Bane."
"Are we long-lost friends, by any chance?" Simon said.
"Just wondering."
"No, we never got along all that well," said Magnus.
"Long-lost acquaintances? Compadres? My cat liked you.
Cassandra Clare
#32. Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.
Fernando Pessoa
#33. Friends are not a number. You can't collect connections. You can't just go out one day and be like, "Hey, I need some friends!" *goes shopping, scours social media*
Connor Franta
#34. You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. - P. 34
Lemony Snicket
#35. Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
Donald Cargill
#36. In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
Herman Melville
#37. Mr. Satterthwaite's conversation was apt to be unduly burdened by mentions of his titled acquaintances.
Agatha Christie
#38. I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous.
Tom Barbash
#39. Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#40. It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.
Leonard Peltier
#41. Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only - those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. - Colton
Colton Robinsmith
#42. Home was this whole perfectly contained universe
town, friends, acquaintances, the streets we traveled every day ... And we were about to leave it all.
Katrina Kenison
#43. My strong sense of discipline has always been with me, and it also gave me the need for deep affection. I have never been satisfied with acquaintances who are superficial, volatile, or quick to change. I have surrounded myself with people with whom I am in total complicity.
Giorgio Armani
#44. I am what I am," Ty said. "And what is that?" Ariane asked. "A bartender. Always happy to make new acquaintances." He nodded at Bard. "Or to provide guests with drinks. Anyone thirsty?
Neal Stephenson
#45. Leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered
Joseph Conrad
#46. Friends change. Enemies change. Acquaintances change. God alone does not change.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#47. I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. 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.
Macaulay Culkin
#49. There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
Amelia E. Barr
#50. These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.
J.G. Ballard
#51. I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
Charles Bronson
#52. If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends
Elizabeth Gaskell
#53. In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#54. Today, people often make the American mistake of confusing acquaintances with friends. The former are there to share life's pleasures; only the latter should be invited to share one's problems.
Julian Fellowes
#55. Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#56. I felt a bit like Dante, chancing upon one of his old acquaintances in the nth circle of hell.
Paul Murray
#57. 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
#58. I'd say most of my songs I write from personal experience. When I feel like I don't have any inspiration in my personal life, I think about others that are close to me and maybe what they're going through or even just people I've come across, acquaintances.
Tess Henley
#59. He had loads of colleagues, acquaintances, buddies. He was an emotional communist. Everyone counted equally, but none too much.
Louise Penny
#60. They looked at each other until they weren't acquaintances any longer.
Budd Schulberg
#61. I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
Lydia M. Child
#62. Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly hurt that those who ought to have understood him really had less respect for him than his most casual acquaintances.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Acquaintances are abundant, but friends are the few most valuable gems we hold dear.
J. Hale Turner
#64. Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? -
That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
Robert Jordan
#65. You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.
Mohsin Hamid
#66. People have just assumed that ... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.
Nicholas A. Christakis
#67. 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.
Charlene, Princess Of Monaco
#69. 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.
Alafair Burke
#70. There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society.
E. Nesbit
#71. 97. I approached the symbol, with its layers of meaning, but when I touched it, it changed into only a beautiful princess.
98. I threw the beautiful princess headfirst down the mountain to my acquaintances.
99. Who could be relied upon to deal with her.
Donald Barthelme
#72. It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite ... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.
Arne Garborg
