Quotes of: Acquiring Keyword

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Taylor Caldwell

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

Harsha Bhogle

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Pliny the Elder

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

Alfred North Whitehead

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Karen Armstrong

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

The essence of acquiring knowledge is not just to have it, but to consistently apply it in your day to day life.

Edmond Mbiaka

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Edith Wharton

Champions are made and not born. Champion’s feat are acquired and not inherited, earned and not transferred, attained and not deposited

Ikechukwu Joseph

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Bertrand Russell

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

John Wilbanks

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.

William H. Seward

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

No matter the amount of knowledge and wisdom you acquire in life, you can never be wiser than wise itself.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

Anwar Sadat

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

W. Somerset Maugham

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Tarja Halonen

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

A. S. Byatt

I just acquired a choir. I bought it for a song.

How to construct a coffin with six karate chops

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

On Being a Christian