Quotes About Acquaintance

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

And now I will tell you. It is nearly two years ago since I have known Mr. Browning. Mr. Kenyon wished to bring him to see me five years ago, as one of the lions of London who roared the gentlest and was best worth my knowing; but I refused then, in my blind dislike to seeing strangers.

It was during the stay at Pisa, and early in the year 1847, that Mr. Browning first became acquainted with his wife's 'Sonnets from the Portuguese.' Written during the course of their courtship and engagement, they were not shown even to him until some months after their marriage.

Hast made the acquaintance of thy friend Edward the Second's ghost yet, pussycat? They tell me he still screams.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Just as a blind man may, through labor and diligence, acquire an accurate theoretical or notional conception of many subjects and objects which he never saw, so the natural man may, by religious education and personal effort, obtain a sound doctrinal knowledge of the person and work of Christ, without having any spiritual or vital acquaintance with Him.

I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.

As for the acquaintance, which is to be sought in travel; that which is most of all profitable, is acquaintance with the secretaries and employed men of ambassadors: for so in travelling in one country, he shall suck the experience of many. Let him also see, and visit, eminent persons in all kinds, which are of great name abroad; that he may be able to tell, how the life agreeth with the fame.

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

Ray Pearson, played for UCLA. He's a friend of mine.

Augmenting your appearance so drastically that it elicits a reaction from literally every acquaintance you greet is a sea change.

I'm actually really good friends with Gray Maynard.

I'm friendly with Laurence Luckinbill. He's a great man.

What is familiar and well known as such is not really known for the very reason that it is familiar and well known.

The early days of an acquaintance almost always have this importance for us, and fill up a larger space in our memory than longer subsequent periods, which have been less filled with discovery and new impressions.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

If any one will here contend that there must have been traits of goodness in old Featherstone, I will not presume to deny this; but I must observe that goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance. In

I might have lost an acquaintance because of 'Pregnant Women Are Smug.' But we weren't close. Actually, I don't know if the woman knows the song is about her. I have a feeling she might.

Tiger Woods has been one of my best friends for 25 years. I first met Tiger at an event I was hosting in Chicago; he was getting an award.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

I've known Tiger since he was 18. Tiger is a great guy. I am so happy for him right now.

Ali and I have become friends over the years. I was on a plane with him one time when he was the champion.

We don't have much time, so we don't teach them; we acquaint them with things that they can learn.

This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.