#acquire

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

#building #day #every #every day #just

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#actually #articles #behind #book #checked

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#almost #any #creed #cult #into

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. ↗

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

#ambiguous #finished #got #life #once

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#affirms #course #diverse #experiences #his

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. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#acquisition #although #been #century #chinese

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#chinese #cox #documents #effort #highest

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ↗

— Aristotle

#acting #constantly #men #particular #quality

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

— David Lloyd George

#conferred #habit #liberty #merely #privilege

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#acquired #commands #force #him #lasts