Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies,… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
The only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the… — Charles F. Haanel Copy Share Image
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the… — Robert M. Lindner Copy Share Image
For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
In order to have enough of the raw materials...which will be lacking in wartime, we should plan to acquire and use foreign… — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
“Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself... and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity,… — George Augustus Henry Sala Copy Share Image
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
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Next, take a look at the quality of the people who surround you. Do these people back you emotionally, or not? If… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
At least with [Hillary] Clinton, you know, there was some degree of transparency. There was some sense of what's going on here,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the… — Ike Skelton Copy Share Image
One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire… — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension... — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably. — David Platt Copy Share Image
Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
Ban poetry. And make sure that anyone caught reading it is expelled from school. Then it will acquire the glamour. — Clive James Copy Share Image
It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a… — Michael King 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
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness. — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
A married woman has the same natural right to acquire and hold property, and to make all contracts that she is mentally… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image