I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence… — William Hague Copy Share Image
When friends and acquaintances are telling you that you are a genius, before you accept their opinion, take a moment to remember… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend — Page Smith Copy Share Image
An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after… — Henry Home, Lord Kames 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
A man ranks lowest on the credibility index; if he refrains to appreciate the creative instinct of his acquaintances jealously, but likes… — Anuj Copy Share Image
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted,… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so-… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
“To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation that even the sociologists… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.… — Seneca Copy Share Image
When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I have read all of Daniel Aaron's books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual… — Harold Bloom 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
“There isn’t a word for walking out of the grocery store with a gallon jug of milk in a plastic sack that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years. — Anonymous 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
We have many acquaintances in life, and we quite often think these people are true friends. But friends...real friends are few. Learn… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for… — Hilaire Belloc 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
Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight… — Eleanor Roosevelt 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
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought,… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Our aim in studying the Godhead must be to know God himself better. Our concern must be to enlarge our acquaintance, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there… — Walter Savage Landor 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
She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person… — Deanna Raybourn 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
So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
