Acquaintance Quotes - Page 6

• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Safety, Pleasant

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.281

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• Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

  David Eagleman

  Action, Internals, Direct

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• The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

  Beverly Daniel Tatum

  Powerful, Racism, Justice

  Beverly Daniel Tatum (1997). “"Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race”, Basic Books

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• In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Friendship, Separation, Meetings

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• Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Quality, Three, Literature

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• Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dangerous, Discernment, Comparison

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• You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

  Jamie Farr

  Years, Friendship Over, Deals

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• If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

  Leon Trotsky

  Pavement, Politician, Fascists

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• There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Facts, Reason Why

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Kappa Delta Pi

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• Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Thinking, Guiding Principles, Self

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• Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Beauty, Heart, People

  Fredrika Bremer (1844). “New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace”, p.94

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• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Food, Years

  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)

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• The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

  William James

  Men, Essence, Giving

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Children, Writing, Wish

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 10, 2012

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• 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.

  Dan Chaon

  Love, Dream, Memories

  "Stay Awake". Book by Dan Chaon, February 7, 2012.

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• Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Memories, Passion, Hands

  H. Rider Haggard (2001). “All Adventure: She Who Must Be Obeyed”, p.143, Essential Library

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• Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Ideas, Connections, Information

  "Small Change". www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2010.

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• So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade. What other surprises was she concealing?

  Tessa Dare

  Girl, Opposites, Interesting

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• After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

  J. D. Salinger

  Doors, Orange, Mind

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

  Susan Cain

  Introvert, Crosses, Streets

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books

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• I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time." "Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Believe, Night

  Jane Austen (2015). “Annotated Pride and Prejudice with English Grammar Exercises: by Jane Austen (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.329, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Love is essential; gregariousness is optional. Cherish your nearest and dearest. Work with colleagues you like and respect. Scan new acquaintances for those who might fall into the former categories or whose company you enjoy for its own sake. And don't worry about socializing with everyone else. Relationships make everyone happier, introverts included, but think quality over quantity.

  Susan Cain

  Fall, Love Is, Thinking

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• Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what makes you happy. Skip the committee meeting. Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances. Read. Cook. Run. Write a story. Make a deal with yourself that you'll attend a set number of social events in exchange for not feeling guilty when you beg off.

  Susan Cain

  New Year, Running, Home

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.265, Broadway Books

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• Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Money, Food, Medicine

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• Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Hope, Men, Bankers

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