Acquisiton Quotes

#1. In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works.

G. C. Berkouwer

#2. There is so much blandness and grayness out there, people want to be able to say "it's mine." They want to customize their cars like they customize a jeans jacket.

Neil Gershenfeld

#3. Paranormal phenomena have a habit of going away whenever they are tested under rigorous conditions. This is why the $1,000,000 reward of James Randi, offered to anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal effect under proper scientific controls, is safe.

James Randi

#4. Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Peter Ustinov

#5. The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.

Mark Twain

#6. Mount You-Gotta-Be-Kidding-Me.

Rick Riordan

#7. My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Lord Melbourne

#8. You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

Michela Wrong

#9. All dreams of the soul
End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

William Butler Yeats

#10. I don't really have a process. I'm very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.

Sophie Turner

#11. And people do enjoy the plays at completely different levels. And, likewise, they enjoy the authorship question ... at completely different levels.

Mark Rylance

#12. In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.

Craig Childs

#13. It's amazing the stupid things I say sometimes. I mean, you could start an entire branch of scientific research about the stuff I say that gets proved wrong while I'm still busy saying it.

Tad Williams

#14. You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely sure of its treacherous impermanence. And that is all.

Ken Kesey