Quotes of: Acquiring Keyword

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Books and You

Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

Ezra Taft Benson

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

The Republic

The GR site has acquired its market value through the work of its community.

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To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.

The Poisonwood Bible

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Gordon W. Allport

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well.

Rudolf Hiferding

He seemed never to have acquired a skill that we all need: the ability to make another person worry about us.

Stephen Grosz

Sometimes you have to let go in order to receive; after all the universe naturally acquires balance.

Turcois Ominek

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Thomas Paine

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome.

Katharine Graham

By acquiring Biovex, we're continuing the transformation of Amgen into a company that supports therapeutic oncology as well as supportive care oncology.

Roger M. Perlmutter

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Raymond Queneau

Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

In light matters--matters of small consequence, like religion and politics and such things--he never acquired a conviction that could survive a disapproving remark from a cat.

Mark Twain

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

Richard Masur

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Timothy Noah

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.

Henri Rousseau

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky