... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how many of my old acquaintance are dead! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but… — William James Copy Share Image
If you want an opinion concerning the Bible, why not take it from the lips of someone who has a real acquaintance… — William Henry Houghton Copy Share Image
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
My strong sense of discipline has always been with me, and it also gave me the need for deep affection. I have… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
Ravi Zacharias brings with him considerable intellectual strength and theological depth. His background brings him and understanding of cultures and personal acquaintance… — Jay Kesler Copy Share Image
Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes?" - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken 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
Once in awhile, you do encounter bad acquaintance, mean people, toxic aura. Don't let them rent space in your heart and mind.… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
