Quotes about Acquainted (172 quotes)

...And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days... Votes: 3

Dylan Thomas

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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. Votes: 1

Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. Votes: 1

Virgil

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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. Votes: 1

Lord Byron

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As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. Votes: 1

John James Audubon

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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. Votes: 1

Elbert Hubbard

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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. Votes: 1

Bertrand Russell

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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. Votes: 1

Gertrude Stein

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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. Votes: 1

Novalis

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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. Votes: 1

Samuel Johnson

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Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Votes: 1

Donald Cram

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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. Votes: 1

John Wooden

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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. Votes: 1

Philip Stanhope

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You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school. Votes: 1

Eli Whitney

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. Votes: 1

Richard Cecil

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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. Votes: 1

Norman Vincent Peale

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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. Votes: 1

Vernon Howard

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I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting. Votes: 1

Akshay Kumar

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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. Votes: 1

David Hume

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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. Votes: 1

Henry Lawson

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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own. Votes: 1

Jackson Pollock

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I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it is to get acquainted with fish swimming in the ocean, rather than just swimming with lemon slices and butter. Votes: 1

Sylvia Earle

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Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read. Votes: 1

James Fenton

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A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school. Votes: 1

Jason Wu

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I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them. Votes: 1

Mark Shields

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Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that. Votes: 1

Erykah Badu

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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished. Votes: 1

Taslima Nasrin

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Become acquainted with every art. Votes: 0

Miyamoto Musashi

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Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with. Votes: 0

Marjorie Fleming

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To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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I am one who has been acquainted with the night Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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I became intimately acquainted with the Bible only as a theological student. Votes: 0

Frank Moore Cross

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Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. Votes: 0

Henry Morton Stanley

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Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed. Votes: 0

Heraclitus

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No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted? Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle

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Awareness is becoming acquainted with the environments, no matter where one happens to be. Votes: 0

Sigurd F. Olson

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We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu

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We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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When poison becomes a habit, it ceases to injure: make your soul gradually acquainted with death. Votes: 0

Saib Tabrizi

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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate. Votes: 0

Peter De Vries

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Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family. Votes: 0

Marijane Meaker

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Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do. Votes: 0

Noureen DeWulf

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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do. Votes: 0

Menander

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Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would. Votes: 0

E. W. Howe

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth. Votes: 0

Eliza Farnham

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I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine. Votes: 0

Kurt Rambis

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Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself. Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. Votes: 0

Warren Zevon

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I am one powerful self made up of so many selves that sometimes I throw myself a get-acquainted party. Votes: 0

Eric Maisel

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Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. Votes: 0

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore. Votes: 0

Viggo Mortensen

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The journal and Gansey were clearly long acquainted, and he wanted her to know. This is me. The real me. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted. Votes: 0

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something. Votes: 0

Henri Poincare

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Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear. Votes: 0

Peace Pilgrim

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Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody. Votes: 0

Dave Eggers

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With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. Votes: 0

Julia Ward Howe

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As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character. Votes: 0

Chuck Jones

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No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. Votes: 0

Charles Alexander Eastman

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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other. Votes: 0

Tennessee Williams

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I take my job seriously, which means I'm going to need to get acquainted with the subject matter on a personal level. Votes: 0

Becca Fitzpatrick

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Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place. Votes: 0

Brian Bell

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In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. Votes: 0

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself. Votes: 0

Robert Henri

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Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. Votes: 0

James Weldon Johnson

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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. Votes: 0

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. Votes: 0

Lord Chesterfield

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In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. Votes: 0

Sun Tzu

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Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, muchless is he acquainted with its nature and quality. Votes: 0

Emanuel Swedenborg

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One [expert] said, 'Always have a baby sitter who is acquainted with your children.' If they were acquainted with my children, they wouldn't sit! Votes: 0

Phyllis Diller

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Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big. Votes: 0

B. J. Porter

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I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. Votes: 0

George Ade

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Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know. Votes: 0

Joseph Weizenbaum

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The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling. Votes: 0

Havelock Ellis

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I hope we don't see no paparazzi today. Because I'm still getting acquainted with these jogging pants I threw on. Like, 'That's not my statement!' Votes: 0

Kanye West

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I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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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. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo. Votes: 0

Harry S. Truman

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One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted. Votes: 0

William Alcott

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Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right. Votes: 0

Maajid Nawaz

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It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning. Votes: 0

Robert Boyle

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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. Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody to care for. Votes: 0

Tessa Dare

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I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. Votes: 0

Viktor E. Frankl

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Nineteen twentieths of [mankind is] opaque and unenlightened. Intimacy with most people will make you acquainted with vices and errors and follies enough to make you despise them. Votes: 0

John Adams

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I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily. Votes: 0

Georgia O'Keeffe

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[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals Votes: 0

Anatol Rapoport

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It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time. Votes: 0

Paul Smith

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Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. Votes: 0

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise. Votes: 0

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.... Votes: 0

Richard Cecil

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An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity. Votes: 0

Chaim Potok

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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. Votes: 0

William Henry Ashley

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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. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Awareness is becoming acquainted with environment, no matter where one happens to be. Man does not suddenly become aware or infused with wonder; it is something we are born with. Votes: 0

Sigurd F. Olson

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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place. Votes: 0

Garth Hudson

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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. Votes: 0

John Pople

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So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind. Votes: 0

George Washington

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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form. Votes: 0

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The notebooks of Paul Brunton represent the acme of wisdom on the nature of human spirituality. Every serious student of this subject will profit enormously by becoming acquainted with Brunton's seminal work. Votes: 0

Kenneth Ring

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One of our problems today is that we are not well acquainted with the literature of the spirit. We re interested in the news of the day and the problems of the hour. Votes: 0

Joseph Campbell

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We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self. Votes: 0

George Washington Carver

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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. Votes: 0

Maria Monk

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A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent. Votes: 0

James F. Cooper

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When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most. Votes: 0

Joni Eareckson Tada

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If you are eagerly looking for salvation, and if you believe in God, you may ... become acquainted with the Christ of God, and, after being initiated [a reference to baptism], live a happy life. Votes: 0

Justin Martyr

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I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways. Votes: 0

A. E. Housman

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Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I have never seen, with whom I have never become acquainted. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in. Votes: 0

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Every atom in creation may be said to be acquainted with and married to every other, but with universal union there is a division sufficient in degree for the purposes of the most intense individuality. Votes: 0

John Muir

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