Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack. — Aesop Copy Share Image
Man is busy desiring to find something which only he can do so that his ego acquires importance. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One challenge of growing up in the twenty-first century will be to acquire a self-definition that can encompass person and planet, socially… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to… — Nathan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat Yes, he has chemical and biological weapons. He's had those for a long… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That… — Thomas Watson, Jr Copy Share Image
In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace require that all-whether those governments which openly… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
At times we are thrown suddenly into positions that seem too big for us and for which we have little preparation. The… — Robert E. Wells Copy Share Image
In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved. — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow. — Lester Wunderman Copy Share Image
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished! — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
