Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative. — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In going directly to Investment Heaven, you build your portfolio as you would build a wonderful company through a merger and acquisition… — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and… — Stephen Cambone Copy Share Image
It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
