Acquaintance Quotes - Page 6

• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Safety, Pleasant

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.281

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• The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Powerful, Racism, Justice

  Beverly Daniel Tatum (1997). “"Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race”, Basic Books

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• In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Friendship, Separation, Meetings

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• Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

  David Eagleman

  Action, Internals, Direct

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• Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Quality, Three, Literature

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• Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dangerous, Discernment, Comparison

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• You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

  Jamie Farr

  Years, Friendship Over, Deals

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• If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

  Leon Trotsky

  Pavement, Politician, Fascists

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• There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Facts, Reason Why

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Kappa Delta Pi

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• Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Thinking, Guiding Principles, Self

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• Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Beauty, Heart, People

  Fredrika Bremer (1844). “New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace”, p.94

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• An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

  William James

  Men, Roots, Differences

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.284, The Floating Press

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• I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

  Anthony Trollope

  Clever, Men, Boston

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.16

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• I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.

  Fanny Burney

  World, Saws, Odd

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him - a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.

  Hal Lindsey

  Leader, World, Figures

  "How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist". www.wnd.com. August 1, 2008.

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• When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its acquaintance and hear what it had to tell... I asked the boulders I met, whence they came and whither they were going.

  John Muir

  Boulders, Plant, Minutes

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.69, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.

  Ilya Kabakov

  Husband, Father, Artist

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• It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Past, Roots, History

  Reader's Digest Vol. 130, 1987.

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• It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dark, Parent, Upset

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.101, Fawcett

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• After forty years of close acquaintance with it, I've found that work is kind to its friends and harsh to its enemies. It pays the fellow who dislikes it his exact wages, and they're generally pretty small; but it gives the man who shines up to it all the money he wants and throws in a heap of fun and satisfaction for good measure.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Fun, Work, Men

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Foundation, Too Much, Losing

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.24

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• At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

  Grace Kelly

  Hate, Thinking, Hollywood

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

  Austin O'Malley

  Cutting, Ifs, Conscience

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• The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

  Edward Hoagland

  Life, Disappointment, Loss

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• One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Book, Long, Choices

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.5

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