Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Anna Seward

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Jean Piaget

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

Max Planck

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

Philip James Bailey

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

Leo Tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Eric Ries

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Kate Morton

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

Thomas Mallon

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.

David Wilder

The pro-disengagement forces still have a long way to go in their work. We have allies there and we can still stop it politically.

Carl Pope

We applaud those in Congress who have refused to let drilling proponents manipulate them and the democratic process. Although there are some still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, the drilling lobby and their allies will be hard-pressed to keep Arctic drilling in the budget knowing that it is dead on arrival in the House.

Barbara Kingsolver

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

Kay Granger

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

Klaus Fuchs

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

Klaus Fuchs

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

Joschka Fischer

Loyalty to allies is an important and central issue in German foreign policy but reason must always take priority,

Saint-John Perse

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

Edward P. Jones

Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.

Tom Wolfe

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

Rem Koolhaas

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Helen Keller

One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar.

Alan Alda

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

Sonam Kapoor

You marry out of free will. If I marry, it will be from a personal choice, not some social compulsion or norm.

Edgar Mitchell

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.

Ben Rogers

We are comfortable with compulsion in other walks of life, such as jury duty or the requirement to educate our children.

James Stephens

The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.