#acquaintances

The city's full of people who you just see around. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#cities #strangers #men

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#becomes #business #capital #deliberately #fortune

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#anything #friends #hide #i #just

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. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

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

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

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. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#acquaintances #age #because #friends #good

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. ↗

— Charles Bronson

#children #figured #friends #had #i

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

#after #book #could #expect #female

To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend. ↗

— Reba McEntire

#be real #because #being #careful #close

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. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#being #business #buy #colleagues #friends