"What is the use of acquiring one's heart's……" — Dorothy L. Sayers
"What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?"
More Acquiring Quotes
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once… — Kevin Bacon
- President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. — John O. Brennan
- The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other… — John O. Brennan
- We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us… — Albert Camus
- In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial… — Unknown Author
- Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. — Mahatma Gandhi
- If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their… — Charles Darwin
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate… — William James
- For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential… — Adolf Hitler
- Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have… — Greg LeMond
- The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts,… — Seraphim of Sarov