#acquaint

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

#deployed #i #joke #know #more

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#acquainted #alone #gets #goes #himself

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. ↗

— George Boole

#affecting #certainty #change #circumstances #demand

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. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#acquainted #anniversary #attending #australia #children

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

— Edward Koch

#bosom #friend #growing #growing old #make

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. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#acquaintance #alive #comes #confess #finding

I talked to a calzone for fifteen minutes last night before I realized it was just an introverted pizza. I wish all my acquaintances were so tasty.
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— Jarod Kintz

#alone #calzone #communicate #communication #desperation

Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. ↗

— Martha Beck

#acquaintances #almost #case #coffee #elderly

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. ↗

— George Washington

#actions #attachment #convince #criterion #every