I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I… — Sergei Rachmaninoff Copy Share Image
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety… — Jonathan Waterman 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
Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Did I put them in contact with the people to acquire them? Yes. Did I educate them on how to use them… — Jose Canseco Copy Share Image
However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
I was a young man, and this is the kind of London it was, but so many people are just not here… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
President-elect Biden is committed to the proposition that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon. — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. — Michael Nyman Copy Share Image
You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades… — Mark Hulbert Copy Share Image
A child in his earliest years, when he is only two or a little more, is capable of tremendous achievements simply through… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
