Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Larry Ellison

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.

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.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Ramana Maharshi

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

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.

Somnath Chatterjee

He wants to invoke the threat of polls (new elections), which the allies do not obviously want at this stage.

Dick Cheney

He will, as he said he would, consult widely with our Congress, with our friends and allies around the world.

Raphael Sonenshein

He had a very close relationship with Miguel Contreras and a very, very close relationship with Ludlow. He's very much a labor guy, but he's going to need labor allies on each of these issues.

Chuck D.

He has set aside the charade of Kyoto and he is saying we can do it in a better way, a more responsible way, ... We will come up with an alternative. We want to work with our allies on this and our friends around the world, and we will.

Wang Jianlin

Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

Jim Baker

Our biggest allies are the local development offices and councils. They're the people who get the flak from the business people who are attracted to Kent because it's more rural and less stressful than the city, but if they can't get metropolitan-quality communications, they're going to think about it.

Jeffrey Montgomery

Our call to people of goodwill and justice, and especially to all gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender people, and those who support and love us ---our allies in the fight for liberty and justice for all--- is to take action.

C. Robert Kehler

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

Edward Kennedy

President Bush must do more than give speeches, ... He must demonstrate leadership by saying no to his right-wing allies who want to close our borders and yes to the business community, labor unions and Hispanic Americans who want realistic and comprehensive immigration reform.

Casey Neistat

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

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.

Julian Schnabel

My compulsion is to create things.

Rajnath Singh

Sonia Gandhi had to resign under compulsion and it was not a sacrifice on her part. Congress is trying to project Sonia as St Sonia.

John Egan

This is exactly the point we were trying to make. What's the rush? Just give her a chance. Medical science is not that certain. We would hope the whole process will slow down, and everyone will step back and end the compulsion to end her life.

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.

Albert Einstein

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

John Cridland

The question is whether compulsion would solve the problem of a lack of saving for retirement. We don't think it will.

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.