Short Acquaintance Quotes

#1. It seems to me that dealing with little boys is a lot like playing poker. You need to know when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to walk away. But the most important thing you need to know is, oral contraceptives are only 97 percent effective.

Paula Wall

#2. I'm a huge fan of what 'Hipstamatic' is doing and all they've accomplished.

Kevin Systrom

#3. I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque attempt to fit a revolting hollywood trend. I like real women, not the broomsticks that Hollywood has been selling lately.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#4. It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about us share in our sufferings. The ills of the soul one can hide, but those which attack the body and destroy the faculties cannot be concealed.

Charlotte Bronte

#5. Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?

Walter Scott

#7. And I served as an officer in the army."
"Very impressive. I've been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.

Julie Anne Long

#8. Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

Raymond Chandler

#9. In classic Steve fashion, he would agree to something, but it would never happen," said Lack. "He would set you up and then pull it off the table. He's pathological, which can be useful in negotiations. And he's a genius.

Walter Isaacson

#10. She was thinking. i could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother for her.

Raymond Chandler

#11. secret of what passed between him and the strange girl who would have sacrificed her marriage to him on so short an acquaintance remains

Henry James

#12. On so short an acquaintance remains shut up in his breast. His mother, I know, went to his door

Henry James

#13. I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

Bea Arthur

#14. Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

Silas Weir Mitchell

#15. Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer.

Jeff Probst

#16. Forty-two percent of all that was produced in the world was produced in the United States. America made 80 percent of the world's movies and 85 percent of its cars.

Bill Bryson

#17. We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Julia Cameron