Acquired

Famous quotes containing the word acquired:

    “A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    “The actor can be compared to the soldier. The former dazzled by his triumphs, sighs continually for the struggles of stage- life; the latter filled with the glory he has acquired on the battlefield, cannot resign himself to peace.”
    —Adelaide Ristori (1822–1906)

    “We don’t know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don’t understand our name at all, we don’t know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.”
    —Milan Kundera (b. 1929)