#quain

Medieval justice was a quaint thing. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#medieval #quaint #thing

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#acquainted #after #aware #been #changes

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge. ↗

— John Pople

#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#being #business #buy #colleagues #friends

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. ↗

— Elihu Root

#another #another way #better #each #good

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members. ↗

— E. B. White

#club #easier #his #loyal #man

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. ↗

— Donald Cram

#avoid #being #biological #chemistry #few

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it. ↗

— Marc Davis

#amuse #attended #before #different #different schools

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#acquainted #attendance #became #best #church

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#adversity #becomes #been #considered #easily