Acquainted Quotes
199 Acquainted quotes by 161 unique authors
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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city…
— Robert Frost
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And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
— Jane Austen
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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and mingle with the…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they…
— Victor Hugo
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I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest…
— Robert Frost
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You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the…
— Charles Dickens
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
— Tennessee Williams
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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with…
— Jane Austen
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Stephen had just come from a class discussion in which several students believed that the right cup of herbal tea would save them from pain…
— Caroline B. Cooney
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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad…
— Jane Austen
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Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it…
— Stefan Zweig
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I am one who has been acquainted with the night
— Robert Frost
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Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is…
— David Klass
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The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan…
— Jonathan Edwards
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Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before…
— Emily Bronte
Who Wrote These Acquainted Quotes
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