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Acquainted Quotes (page 3)

Raymond Chandler quote: "She was thinking. i could see, even on that short..."
She was thinking. i could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother for her. Raymond Chandler
If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. Jane Austen
Benjamin Disraeli quote: "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write..."
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. Benjamin Disraeli
It isn't Time Or Opportunity that's to determine intimacy ; It's Disposition alone..Seven Years aren't enough for some people to get acquainted with each other ,While Seven days are more than enough for others ! Jane Austen
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I..."
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. Joan Didion
He had two lives: one, open, and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And though some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people. Anton Chekhov
Confucius quote: "Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is..."
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established Confucius
From the very beginnin? from the first moment, I may almost sa? of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry. Jane Austen
Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith? It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once... Anne Bronte
I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted. Charles Bukowski
Jane Austen quote: "Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they..."
Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. Jane Austen
Lussurioso: "Welcome, be not far off, we must be better acquainted. Push, be bold with us, thy hand!"Vindice: "With all my heart, i'faith. How dost, sweet musk-cat? When shall we lie together?"Lussurioso: (aside) "Wondrous knave! Gather him into boldness? 'Sfoot, the slave's. Already as familiar as an ague, And shakes me at his pleasure! -- Friend, I can. Forget myself in private, but elsewhere, I pray do you remember be."Vindice: "Oh, very well, sir. I conster myself saucy."Lussurioso: "What... Thomas Middleton
Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, muchless is he acquainted with its nature and quality. Emanuel Swedenborg

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