If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat.… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of… — Christopher Dodd Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. — Lawana Blackwell Copy Share Image
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them.… — William James Copy Share Image
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Assume that a surgeon has discovered how to do brain surgery, that he can do only one a month, that 1,000 persons… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or… — David Liss Copy Share Image
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from… — Charles Bass Copy Share Image
People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth. — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
