The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances. — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
I love to be loved. Whether it is by a significant other or an acquaintance, I get it. — Luke James Copy Share Image
“acquaintance with the author is limited to brief visits and loving fellowship” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through… — Erma Bombeck 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
Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
At least, not in this country,' she added after a moment's thought. 'In China it's a little different. Once I saw a… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre 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
I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities,… — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine,… — Arne Garborg Copy Share Image
He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The ideal life is that which has few friends, but many acquaintances. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were. — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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