Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask,… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance… — Elizabeth Strout 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
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
“We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Usually, I have a lot of acquaintance with the story before I start writing it. When I didn't have regular time to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit… — Jane Austen 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
Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when… — Anuj 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
I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this… — Eugen Herrigel 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
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
In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich… — Anonymous 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
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
“Such nights are possible, and we survive them. It is a matter of sleeping next to the adored body you no longer… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Stranger. Acquaintance. Buddy. Friend. Best friend forever. Friend. Hardly in touch. Stranger. *Wash. Rinse. Repeat* — Anonymous 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
It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. — 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
“In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends. — Abraham Cowley 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
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. — Mojo Nixon 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 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
If you can't tell someone how you feel whether it's love, annoyance, hurt feelings and even anger then they will never be… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
