Acquir'd Quotes

#1. This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

Bernard De Mandeville

#2. Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.

Sam Snead

#3. Her face looked as if she knew his worst suffering and it was hers and she wished to bear it like this, coldly, asking no words of mitigation.

Ayn Rand

#4. So this is pain. So this is wretchedness. So this is misery. I never knew. -Jack

Melissa De La Cruz

#5. I've always understood that my heart is multilingual. It speaks in whispers, expressions, colours, body, songs, and fervent desire.

Cheri Bauer

#6. The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

Angelina Jolie

#7. So remember what others think of you depends a lot on what you believe about yourself, what you think you are, what you think about, what you say and what you have proven you can do.

Rita Zahara

#8. The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

Malcolm X