#acquaintances

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

— Milla Jovovich

#feel #friends #i #i feel #i feel like

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

#acquaintances #again #another #begin #civil

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#advice #caring #caring-for-others #companion #constructive-criticism

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 choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#acquaintances #cannot #careful #characters #choice

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

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. ↗

— Martha Beck

#acquaintances #almost #case #coffee #elderly

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

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

— Logan P. Smith

#acquaintances #boast #complain #kinds #need