Acquaintance Quotes

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U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

- Christiane Amanpour

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

- Gregory Peck

The only way to get 520,000 men home - men who had been practically sneaked into Vietnam in the first place - was to make the decision to mine Haiphong Harbor. President (Richard Nixon) had the courage to make that decision, and when the other side started using prisoners of war as pawns, he had to make the awesome decision to bomb Hanoi. Which he did, and then he brought our prisoners of war home. Richard Nixon and I have had a long acquaintance. I respected him as a goodly man - winning or losing - over the years, and I think he should be standing in the crowning glory today for his accomplishments. Instead, they`ve chosen to blame him for the gradual growth of hypocrisy and individual ambition that have made our political system distasteful to the public.

- John Wayne

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

- James Weldon Johnson

There`s sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

- Jello Biafra

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.

- Kenneth Williams

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

- Ambrose Bierce

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.

- Kenneth Grahame

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that`s not a rendezvous, that`s a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that`s a rendezvous!

- Wally Schirra

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

- Abdul Jalil Hassan

A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.

- Alan Curry

The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

- Albert Rauch

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.

- Alberto Madrigal

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one`s acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one`s friends, and show that one`s alive.

- Ales Kotalik

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

- Alex Lenahan

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.

- Alexander Rahr

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

- Allison Hanna

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

- Andrew Mohl

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it

- George Washington

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

- Samuel Johnson

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

- Confucius

A woman who can`t forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man

- Edgar Watson Howe

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

- Plato