- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acquaintances Quotes
On the people we know, but not quite as friends.
These acquaintances quotes draw a line between real Friends and looser online or social contacts, noting that acquaintances rarely sway us the way close friends do. One speaker even calls a new acquaintance a fast one after a single shared performance.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think sometimes I write to impress my influences. Whether they're actually acquaintances of mine, people that I think will hear the record or not, I still write - not to imitate my influences - but to write something that would live up to their standards.
- Cry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've found that dealing with white people faux pas can be tricky. If I get upset, I could quickly be labeled the 'angry black girl.' But if I don't say anything or react too passively, I risk giving friends and acquaintances permission to continue crossing the line.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020