We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and… — Leah Ward Sears 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
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People have prejudices against a nation in which they have no acquaintances. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with… — Jane Austen 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
The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -… — Hans Zinsser 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
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
... 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
The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
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
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
