Acquaintance Quotes

299 quotes by 236 authors

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written… — Lydia M. Child
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get… — Leah Ward Sears
Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar.… — Garth Hudson
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep… — Eli Whitney
The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful. — Beverly Daniel Tatum
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make… — Philip E. Agre
There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk… — Amelia Barr
I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,… — W. Somerset Maugham
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of… — James Joseph Sylvester
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of… — Ambrose Bierce
It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence… — George Horne
Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. — Anatoly Karpov
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance. — David Eagleman
Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?' — Gina Barreca
For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health;… — Unknown Author
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would… — Unknown Author
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of… — Anna Garlin Spencer
You wouldn't believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as patients in Hanover. You wouldn't believe… — Hans Alfred Nieper
And we stood like that. The joining of hands is highly underrated in the acts of intimacy. You kiss acquaintances or colleagues, casually to say… — Lisa Unger
I must only warn you of one thing. You have become a different person in the course of these years. For this is what the… — Eugen Herrigel

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