An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of… — Donald Faison 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
Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we… — George Washington Copy Share Image
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom… — William Dunbar Copy Share Image
What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them;… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
