Acquire Quote by Malcolm Cowley

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

— Anwar Sadat

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

— Bertrand Russell

Humility is an elusive virtue. The more we pursue it - and the more we seem to acquire it - the more we take…

— Mike Aquilina

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to…

— Charlie Munger

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will…

— Mark Akenside

Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either…

— Robert Fisk

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

— Lorraine Heath

Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It…

— Peter Martins

You can't know it all. No matter how smart you are, no matter how comprehensive your education, no matter how wide ranging your experience,…

— Donald Trump

A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of…

— Walter Lippmann