Unacquainted Quotes

#1. It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death ... I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.

William Styron

#2. To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows.

George Washington

#3. Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. If you think that, then you, sir, are just as unacquainted with my sort of tenacity. I'd sooner let rats crawl out of my ass."

"Actually, maybe I'll stay," Enosh said. "That might prove amusing.

K.S. Villoso

#5. Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.

Frederick William Faber

#6. IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. I am unacquainted with His designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice

Alexis De Tocqueville

#8. Someone with whom I was unacquainted had turned to me with a military problem, and as I was currently without a state to govern I decided to lend my comrade my support. Thus I spent the following three and a half hours engaged in a naval exercise by the name of "Minesweeper.

Timur Vermes

#9. There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

Lytton Strachey

#10. His father cultivated art and self-realisation; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinth and cocoa, of both of which he had a healthy dislike.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled we know not how, and mankind are wholly unacquainted with their origin.

Jean-Andre De Luc

#12. The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark.

William Cavendish

#14. Those unacquainted with any language but their own are generally very exclusive in matters of taste.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#15. Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#16. Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Horace

#17. Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.

William Wake

#18. People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

Dave Gibbons

#19. From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but

James Cook

#20. He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.

Baruch Spinoza

#21. Ambrosio was yet to learn, that to an heart unacquainted with her, Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#22. Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Julia Roberts

#23. You should know by now that I have eyes in the back of my head. -Mr. Bradshaw, Tess Embers

Embee

#24. Conoco will build a $75 million plant to see if a process to convert natural gas to liquid fuel is profitable. It has to be. In California, gasoline is so expensive that people are trying to run their cars on cocaine.

Argus Hamilton

#25. It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Steve Jobs

#26. You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

John Lennon

#27. In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.

Peter T. King

#28. you look like you smell of
honey and no pain
let me have a taste of that

Rupi Kaur

#29. Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

#30. I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

Idris Elba

#31. To philosophize means to make vivid.

Novalis

#32. Life is so much friendlier with two.

A.A. Milne