Quotes About Family Acquaintances

#1. 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

#2. There is a proverb that says, 'Talk so that I may know who you are.' But I say, 'Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

Nawal El Saadawi

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The law needs to be applied to everyone equally and the Home Office has previous in banning hate preachers engaging in rhetoric similar to that of [Donald] Trump.

Tulip Siddiq

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. Our voices, wrapping around each other's, entwining, and then tugging free, in the pitch black.

Rick Yancey

#9. Holy psychotic PCs, Robin, we've a murderous MacBook on the loose!

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Denzel Washington

#11. It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.

Craig Johnson

#12. Love has to be more than something we feel. It has to be something we do. We have to demonstrate it concretely in our marriage, our family, among our friends and acquaintances, and, yes, even among our enemies.

Gary Chapman

#13. Anytime God wanted to reach people he always used people to do it. So, anytime the Holy Spirit wants to reach other people, it is always through people.

Andy Andrews

#14. You think a million billion more things will come your way, a million billion more versions of everything. But no, everything that actually causes that infinite feeling, the circumstances of every infinite feeling, is so, so finite.

B.J. Novak

#15. Don't feel like you have to do and be everything.

Miranda Kerr

#16. Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion.

Ken Hill

#17. The main thing holding the family back from a change in living quarters was far more their complete hopelessness and the idea that they had been struck by a misfortune like no one else in their entire circle of relatives and acquaintances.

Franz Kafka

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

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#19. And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.

Nicole Krauss

#20. Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

David Jeremiah

#21. When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Ernest Renan

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

Sam Altman