Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings. — Paul Keres Copy Share Image
To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor. — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news. — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
…those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over… — Michel Chossudovsky Copy Share Image
Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality.… — Michael Harner Copy Share Image
The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen 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
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
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
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
