There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
“For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and… — Bill Monroe Copy Share Image
When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.… — Seneca Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind.… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence… — William Hague Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious… I have always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would… — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying… — William James Copy Share Image
It is natural for a young fellow to like the acquaintance of females and customary for him to keep them company when… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
