Acquaintance Quotes - Page 8

• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

  Henry Adams

  Queens, Women, Males

  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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• Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibbler is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the worst white-slave trader of my acquaintance is a decenter man than the best vice crusader.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wine, Character, Men

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• I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.376, Penguin

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• Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.

  Anuj

  Ideas, Knowing, People

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• There's no nation under the sun can beat the English for ill-politeness: for my part, I hate the very sight of them; and so I shall only just visit a person of quality or two of my particular acquaintance, and then I shall go back again to France.

  Fanny Burney

  Hate, Sight, Two

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.65, Delphi Classics

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• Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Enough, Greetings

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

  John Calvin

  Wisdom, Art, Truth

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• The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Principles, Analysis, Fundamentals

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.75, Bertrand Russell

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• We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

  Bertrand Russell

  Language, Inference, Process

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.60, Bertrand Russell

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• Even the simple act that we call "going to visit a person of our acquaintance" is in part an intellectual act. We fill the physical appearance of the person we see with all the notions we have about him, and in the totality of our impressions about him, these notions play the most important role.

  Marcel Proust

  Simple, Play, Intellectual

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• When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Rich, Endless

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “I Will Fear No Evil”, p.309, Penguin

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• The two black lines on the armband means that they're the deceased's family. One line means they are either friends or acquaintances. One line of the arm, one line on the heart. The bastards who stood by my side with two lines, they'll be the hardest farewells I'll have to make in my life, and they're the luckiest fortune I've met in my lifetime.

  Yoon Sang-hyun

  Farewell, Heart, Mean

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• When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Communication, Two, Eating Together

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• When we were not shooting [The Hangover] we were sleeping, so pretty much every waking moment we spent together. And, you know, Bradley [Cooper], Zach [Galifianakis] and I were acquaintances before the movie started but we became good friends very quickly and spent so much time together that it was just inevitable we were either going to really hate each other or really like each other. Thank god it turned out to be the latter.

  Ed Helms

  Hate, Hangover, Sleep

  Source: movies.about.com

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• There is an enormous thrust in our time to have a simple answer. And that simple answer is that all depends on Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve. And Alan, who is an old acquaintance of mine, is a marvelous performer in the impression he gives of enormously great perception.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Giving, Perception

  Source: progressive.org

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• There were people whom I considered friends or loved ones who either abandoned me or betrayed me in ways I'd never have suspected. But there were others who had been barely acquaintances of mine whose loyalty and efforts on my behalf made me realize that not everyone was as inherently rotten as I'd previously believed. So it caused a violent split in my view of humanity - people turned out to be far worse and far better than I'd ever dreamed possible.

  Jim Goad

  Loyalty, Views, People

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century. I would like to think that I could emulate at least his modesty - his refusal to exaggerate his perception of himself and his place in the larger scheme of things - even if my work never compares with his in its importance.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities, puzzle pieces fitting together. I was doing an event that they were sponsoring, and after a group of us went to dinner and we started talking a little bit more and one thing led to another.We all thought it might be a good idea to try to develop a show and as we started talking about the show that we might bring to air, it turned into doing a newsmagazine.

  Ed Gordon

  Couple, Air, Talking

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from close friends who are highly aligned.

  John Friend

  Powerful, Way, Close Friends

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• It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.

  Leonard Peltier

  Loss, America, Family And Friends

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• First-hand acquaintance with the actual texts is always the best way.

  N. T. Wright

  Hands, Way, Firsts

  Source: sojo.net

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• If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.

  Donald Faison

  Motivation, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Paul Eide, me.askmen.com. February 27, 2016.

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• You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Recovery, Addiction, Needs

  "Telltale Hurt" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. February 1, 2016.

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• Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome.

  Charles Mackay

  Errors, Welcome, Ancient

  Charles Mackay (1841). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions”, p.314

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• Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

  Matthew Hale

  Friendship, Fashion, Clothes

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