Acquires Quotes

105 Acquires quotes by 99 unique authors

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land. — Jimmy Buffett
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility… — Chuck Palahniuk
Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch,… — Yukio Mishima
Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course,… — Ludwig von Mises
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires… — Soren Kierkegaard
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous… — Wassily Kandinsky
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no… — Naomi Wolf
A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in… — Malcolm Cowley
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow. — Saadi
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them. — Mahatma Gandhi
A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote… — Ernst Mayr
Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of… — Emile Durkheim
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than… — Mark Pagel
Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings. — Victor Grignard
Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce. — S. Jay Olshansky
Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. — Ramakrishna
Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as… — Kate Atkinson
Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life far the greatest is the possession of Friendship. — Epicurus
A real 'karma-yogi', who first acquires knowledge and then works for the welfare of people, quite naturally becomes popular and famous. There is no enemy… — Sam Veda
Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him who plows his land and leaves it unsown — Muslih-uddin Sadi
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind,… — Spencer Tracy
Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that… — Sorin Cerin
The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself. — Burleigh Grimes
It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened. — Dave Reichert
Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child… — Pearl S. Buck

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