Acquired Quotes

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.

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.