Acquainting Quotes

#1. There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

Idina Menzel

#2. Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

Philip K. Dick

#3. The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Derek Bok

#4. Without acquainting me with the language or the literature or the oral family histories which my ancestors had loved, they volunteered to make me ignorant and rootless as proof of their patriotism.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#5. Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Matthew Arnold

#7. I am one for whom dangers are play-
things
One who empties men of their
strength as a nut from its shell
The charms you use I chop up for
relish on my porridge
Beware! I am a deadly mamba
Wrestler of legends
A hive of hornets
A man among men

Nancy Farmer

#8. Got to lose control before you take control.

Patti Smith

#9. To lead, one must follow.

Laozi

#10. We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do.

Maurice Sendak

#11. What was romance but a lovely bit of play between man and woman?

Eileen Wilks

#12. A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

Emma Goldman

#13. No. It was because it was the first time I made love to anyone. You can call me a liar or anything else, but do not doubt me on this. And I swear to you that you were the first, and you will be the last.

~Wraith

Larissa Ione

#14. But I had fastened the door - I had the key in my pocket: I should have been a careless shepherd if I had left a lamb - my pet lamb - so near a wolf's den, unguarded: you were safe.

Charlotte Bronte

#15. They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. Never say love is "like" anything... It isn't.

Michael Chabon