Top 1200 New Acquaintances Quotes & Sayings

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.

The thing about living in a place like Nebraska is there aren't that many people, so your circle of acquaintances is going be much more diverse. Everyone would go to the same bar, like the local politicians and construction workers. The class intersections were fascinating to me. And of course there's a whole other conversation about what a huge source of growth it was for me in terms of understanding people and the world in a way that I hadn't in New York. I used to say that L.A. is essentially New York with yards.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.

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

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

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.

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.

When friends and acquaintances are telling you [that] you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember what you always thought of their opinions in the past.

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.

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

I've done some stuff with Glenn Danzig before, and while I can't really say that we're friends, we're friendly acquaintances.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likings, new dislikings, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, and ourselves, and the world, and the life to come, and salvation.

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

Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.

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

Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a community, and the weak ties that hold neighborhoods and clans together. And it endures because a movement's leaders give participants new habits that create a fresh sense of identity and a feeling of ownership.

We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

I am not anti-European. I have many friends and acquaintances who are Europeans.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.

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

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

With politics, everyone - your neighbour, acquaintances, anyone you ever meet - has an opinion. Particularly about what Arvind Kejriwal should be doing.

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.

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.

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.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

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.

The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances.

Sheamus and I did have a rivalry and then became a team, and we went from being work acquaintances to becoming best friends.

You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.

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

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

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

The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.

Make few acquaintances.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word

Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.