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
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. — Arlene Francis 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
I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our… — Frank Arthur Swinnerton 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
Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from… — Plato Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her… — Jane Austen 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
After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. — Charles Bronson 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
The soufflé is considered the prima donna of the culinary world. The timbale is her more even-tempered relative. On closer acquaintance, both… — Irma S. Rombauer Copy Share Image
If you have a strong ego [and] something good happens to an acquaintance of yours, [it] makes you feel bad. It's called… — Eckhart Tolle 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
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I… — Frank Arthur Swinnerton Copy Share Image
I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image