Quotes about Acquaintance

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

I became good friends with Jack Whitehall. I think he's great, such a great dude, and really funny.

Just as a blind man may, through labor and diligence, acquire an accurate theoretical or notional conception of many subjects and objects which he never saw, so the natural man may, by religious education and personal effort, obtain a sound doctrinal knowledge of the person and work of Christ, without having any spiritual or vital acquaintance with Him.

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

Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.

at New Haven with the valedictory. In his Sophomore year he made the acquaintance of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding—a work which left a permanent impress on his thinking. He read it, he says, with a far higher pleasure "than the most greedy miser finds when gathering up handfuls of silver and gold from some newly-discovered treasure.

IV. When those that we have formerly been conversant with are turning to God, and to his people, their example ought to influence us. Their example should be looked upon as the call of God to us to do as they have done. God, when he changes the heart of one, calls upon another; especially does he loudly call on those that have been their friends and acquaintance.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

I knew Rocky George, the guitar player, 'cause I went to junior high school with him, so I've known him for many years.