#acquaintances

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. ↗

— Arlene Francis

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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

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

#friends #hollywood #our #pay #respect

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 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

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#ends #everywhere #foreign #friends #having

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#again #fishing #friend #good #good friend

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. ↗

— William Powell

#cultivate #few #friends #merriment #mob

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

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