#quaint

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

— Gertrude Stein

#about #acquainted #extraordinary #forget #them

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority. ↗

— Thomas Cavendish

#authority #honour #men #see #strangers

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

#attended #berlin #concerts #enjoyed #especially

We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#acquaintances #again #another #begin #civil

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#first #know #must #order #ourselves

If I met you last night, and brought you back to my place, or followed you to yours, and we had sex, that's what we asked for from each other. It's what I got, and what you got. I don't know you. You don't know me. Thanks for playing, and we're done. If by some fluke anything was said at some point during this entire exchange that made me curious enough to see you again, I would. Has that happened before? A couple of times. Did it last? Clearly, no. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#love #one-night-stand #love

Being briefed only once is a quaint defense. You're either briefed or not briefed. ↗

— Mark Davis

#briefed #defense #either #once #only

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

— Eliza Farnham

#aim #become #efforts #human #human mind

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. ↗

— Lord Byron

#acting #am #delightful #good #good acting

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #always #break #disposition #fresh