Acquired Quotes

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.