Acquired Quotes

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

Reality is an acquired taste.

We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel.

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.