Acquaintance Quote by Susanna Clarke

There is a person whose acquaintance and conversation I do earnestly recommend unto you as thing of the greatest advantage: you will be surprised…

— David Berman

Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the…

— Marcel Proust

“Let it be cold as hell outside, if you have a small stove burning in your little cottage, the hellish cold will only look…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“If I could fly high as the sun, she thought, this war would seem so small to me. We would all be but specks…

— Daniel Arenson

Congratulations on being a veteran who served only in peacetime.

— Anonymous

I really think that if I had met Picasso during peacetime, nothing would have happened.

— Francoise Gilot

“(26) Peacetime highlights basic ‘primary’ skills to the neglect of more advanced, more lateral ‘secondary’ abilities, the former being easier to teach, easier to…

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“It was the price of fighting a war during peacetime”

— C.W. Lemoine

“God knows the war sucks, but he sees no great appeal in these tepid peacetime lives.”

— Ben Fountain

There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it,…

— Helen DeWitt

What is important in self-discovery is the person who keeps going, who has a smile, who is kind to others, who works hard at…

— Frederick Lenz

Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have realized the…

— Frederick Lenz