Quotes About Acquaintance

personally acquainted with them,

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

I'm somebody that you should know.

SOCRATES: What events? POLUS: You see, I presume, that Archelaus the son of Perdiccas is now the ruler of Macedonia? SOCRATES: At any rate I hear that he is. POLUS: And do you think that he is happy or miserable? SOCRATES: I cannot say, Polus, for I have never had any acquaintance with him.

I turned to find Priya, this girl from my school, somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

Most people felt either drawn to Ian or rejected by him, depending on how they interpreted his demeanour. He is described by Mike Kelly, a childhood acquaintance who lived nearby, as a person one would cross the road to avoid, merely because his eyes said: 'Stay Away'.

There was my acquaintance from the Porpoise; Lord John's blond hair was hidden under a formal wig tonight, but I recognized the fine, clear features and slight, muscular body at once. He stood a little apart from the other dignitaries, alone. Rumor had it that his wife had refused to leave England to accompany him to this posting.

Donald Trump Jr. is a very honest, very high-integrity person. I have known him for a long time. I have an enormous amount of respect for him.

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I never met a girl I didn't meet

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

The conferring and comparing of Scriptures is an excellent means of coming to an acquaintance with the mind and will of God in them. —JOHN OWEN

You can be in friendship with people for a number of years without having them as your friends.

The first day you enter into friendship with people is the birthday of that friendship but not the birthday of an intimate friend in your life.

Whoever says, I know Him [I perceive, recognize, understand, and am acquainted with Him (Jesus Christ)] but fails to keep and obey His commandments (teachings) is a liar, and the Truth [of the Gospel] is not in him. But he who keeps (treasures) His Word [who bears in mind His precepts, who observes His message in its entirety], truly in him has the love of and for God been perfected … (1 John 2:4–5 AMP)

the worls, he would remark to her a few weeks into their acquaintance, is a terrible place and it was our misfortune to have been born into it.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.