When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a… — Steven Pressfield 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
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult writing what it's like to be a child. You can pretend you know what it's like, but… — Tama Janowitz 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
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result… — Moses Harvey 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
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train… — Fernando Pessoa 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
Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy.… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without… — David Hume Copy Share Image
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the… — Indu Sundaresan Copy Share Image
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Every single day we meet someone new, we may not notice, but they are just in the view. can you please open… — Romeo Huerbana 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
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the… — Joseph Addison 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
After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances. — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
You're a grand old flag! You're a high-flying flag, And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of the land… — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image