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  • Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

  • God is a spirit. Jesus was led up of the Spirit to be tempted of the Devil; and it is also true that spirits are very likely to lead men to the Devil. Too intimate acquaintance with whisky toddy overnight is often followed by the delirium tremens and blue-devils on the morrow. We advise our readers to eschew alike spirituous and spiritual mixtures. They interfere sadly with sober thinking, and play the Devil with your brains.

    Spiritual   Jesus   Men  
  • There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person.

    Love   Dream   Memories  
    "Stay Awake". Book by Dan Chaon, February 7, 2012.
  • When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

    Children   Writing   Wish  
    FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 10, 2012
  • There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

    C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Allegory of Love”, p.10, Cambridge University Press
  • The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

    Peace   Powerful   War  
    Ambrose Bierce (1912). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata”
  • My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

    Smile   Circles   Years  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • These people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.

    Silly   Night   People  
  • Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  • It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

    Littles   Facts   Conceit  
    Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7
  • Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be." Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

    Mean   Eye   Thinking  
    Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Big Sleep: A Novel”, p.5, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
  • Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

    Art   Memorable   Broken  
    William Saroyan (1984). “The New Saroyan Reader: A Connoisseur's Anthology of the Writings of William Saroyan”, Creative Arts Book Company
  • The thing about living in a place like Nebraska is there aren't that many people, so your circle of acquaintances is going be much more diverse. Everyone would go to the same bar, like the local politicians and construction workers. The class intersections were fascinating to me. And of course there's a whole other conversation about what a huge source of growth it was for me in terms of understanding people and the world in a way that I hadn't in New York. I used to say that L.A. is essentially New York with yards.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.

    Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1966). “The Eye: A Novel”
  • Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.

  • The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

    Adversity   Fire   Mass  
  • People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

    "Ted 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.
  • At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

    "'Gedanken, Satiren, Fragmente' ('Thoughts, Satires, Fragments')". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1907.
  • Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.

    Years   People   Together  
  • The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

    Long   Important   Unseen  
    Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics
  • My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

  • When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

    Hands   Shields   Faces  
    E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.154, 谷月社
  • Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.

    Coffee   Elderly   Middle  
  • A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

    Simple   Spirit   Holy  
    J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.54, InterVarsity Press
  • Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. This language may be the best we have for explaining what we are like to others in space, with least ambiguity. I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later.

    Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
  • Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

    Liang Zhuge, Ji Liu (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.58, Shambhala Publications
  • You wouldn't believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as patients in Hanover. You wouldn't believe this, or directors of the AMA, or ACA, or the presidents of orthodox cancer institutes. That's the fact

    Cancer   Believe   Fda  
  • Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.

    Giving   Ignorant   Mind  
    John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.118, 谷月社
  • The further our civilization advances upon its present lines so much the cheaper sort of thing does "fame" become, especially of the literary sort. This species of "fame" a waggish acquaintance says can be manufactured to order, and sometimes is so manufactured.

    Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.492, Northwestern University Press
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