Acquirable Quotes & Sayings

That the Will is always determined by the strongest motive, — Jonathan Edwards

Successful people love what they do and feel compelled t express the best that is within them. They don't strive to be better than their neighbors or contemporaries they strive to be better than themselves. — Brian Souza

She had never been able to stand her husband, though not for one minute in their married life had she permitted this to make her unhappy. Only people who are fond of somebody can ever be unhappy, she had told her daughter before her wedding. — Anna Seghers

The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and class is weakened, the characteristics of region and clan, neighborhood or kindred are attenuated. The individual is denuded of everything but appetities, desires and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process of mutilation; and once this has been achieved, we are offered the consolation of reconstituting the abbreviated humanity out of the things and the goods around us, and the fantasies and vapors which they emit. A culture becomes the main determinant upon morality, beliefs and purposes, usurping more and more territory that formerly belonged to parents, teachers, community, priests and politics alike. — Jeremy Seabrook

Sorcery was a sword without a hilt. There is no sfe way to grasp it. — George R R Martin

Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it. — Robert A. Heinlein

Bought all the Beatle records, I sounded just like Paul. — Mac Davis

I am as impressed by honesty as anyone, but when there is a hint that a man is taking me into his confidence, my first instinct is to suspect him. Am I to be flattered? And is he about to break another's confidence? — Zia Haider Rahman

I only come out for food. — Blair Holden

The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning." — Salomon Bochner

What is indispensable to inspiration? ... sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians. — Billy Graham