First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. — Mojo Nixon Copy Share Image
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
If you can't tell someone how you feel whether it's love, annoyance, hurt feelings and even anger then they will never be… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't… — Macaulay Culkin Copy Share Image
When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Man comes from a drop of semen and leaves as a piece of dust. He doesn't know when he came and he… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both… — Irma S. Rombauer Copy Share Image
In my life, there have been people that I was convinced would be around forever, and yet, somehow they managed to drift… — Alana Stewart Copy Share Image
Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances.… — Yoon Sang-hyun Copy Share Image
When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
![“PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one - the knowledge and the dream.” quote by Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/432/ambrose-bierce-140_acquaintance_past-n-that-part-of-eternity-with-some-s_2964434.jpg)
