“In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for… — Fanny Burney 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
... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was… — M. Carey Thomas Copy Share Image
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The ability to see yourself as a temporary expression of intention and to see yourself in all of humanity is a characteristic… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks… — Sarah Orne Jewett 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
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
There are some whose Karma is such as to enable them to develop the purely spiritual faculties first of all -- to… — Charles Webster Leadbeater Copy Share Image
Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues,… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. — Hattie McDaniel Copy Share Image
There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from… — John Friend Copy Share Image
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play… — Garth Hudson Copy Share Image
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask,… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing… — Anonymous 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
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
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful. — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get… — Reba McEntire 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/quotes/img-quotes/432/ambrose-bierce-140_acquaintance_past-n-that-part-of-eternity-with-some-s_2964434.jpg)
