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
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
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be… — Anonymous 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
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
You wouldn't believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as patients in Hanover.… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points… — Elihu Root 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
our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
The members of the legislative department . . . are numerous. They are distributed and dwell among the people at large. Their… — James Madison 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
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
Past, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
