There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural… — Herbert Spencer 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
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
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
She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a… — Tina Modotti Copy Share Image
Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was… — M. Carey Thomas 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
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
We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and… — Bill Monroe 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
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
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but… — Arne Garborg Copy Share Image
If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
the feet should have more of the acquaintance of earth, and know more of flowers, freshness, cool brooks, wild thyme, and salt… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would… — Lloyd C. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate… — Henry Bessemer Copy Share Image
I do not like new things of any kind, not even a new gown, far less a new acquaintance, therefore make as… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn… — Samuel Richardson 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
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
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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