If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
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I don't think life offers any greater experience than the joyful sense of recognition when one finds in a new acquaintance a… — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we… — George Washington Copy Share Image
trees, unlike so many humans, always improve on acquaintance. No matter how much you like them at the start you are sure… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“I’ve learned difference between a friend and an acquaintance. Acquaintances provide a warm body in the room. They provide entertainment. They can… — John Herrick Copy Share Image
She always has kind words for me, so I've wished to know her name. What do I call her?; oh if I… — Reynold Copy Share Image
“In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
“For me, there are distinct levels of friendship: BEST FRIEND: An extremely close individual you can do anything with, talk about everything… — Connor Franta Copy Share Image
“Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of… — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will… — David Berman Copy Share Image
I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You just have to decide how close you want them. Not every person in your life needs to be your best friend:… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Sex is perhaps like culture - a luxury that only becomes an art after generations of leisurely acquaintance. Why we scarcely approach… — Alice B. Toklas Copy Share Image
There are friends and there are acquaintances. Friends are the people you can depend on, there for you, that you can count… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever thought it right that the… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from… — Plato Copy Share Image
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when… — Anuj Copy Share Image
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