For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Many Christians 'stall out' in the faith when the call to total commitment is received or viewed as something too high or… — Chip Ingram Copy Share Image
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to… — RZA 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
In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing… — Jean de la Bruyere 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
Forging differs from hoaxing, inasmuch as in the later the deceit is intended to last for a time, and then be discovered,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a… — Charles Wagner Copy Share Image
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
So there's no typical day, but I transition through the course of my business day by doing everything from construction meetings on… — Ivanka Trump Copy Share Image
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea… — Friedrich Schiller 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
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Do you realize this? That if you were to somehow purpose to, from this day on, perfectly please God and succeed in… — Paris Reidhead Copy Share Image
Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food.… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
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