Obtaining Quotes
Obtaining Quote of the day
Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.
I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.
There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.
I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.
Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.
In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.
You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it.
We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?
People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.
By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.
Love of Mary and devotion to her are a sure sign of obtaining eternal salvation.
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns.
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.
It requires but little acquaintance with the heart to know that woman's first wish is to be handsome; and that, consequently, the readiest method of obtaining her kindness is to praise her beauty.
The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.
The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.
Integration is the method toward obtaining that goal. And what he Negro leader has done is gotten himself wrapped up in the method and has forgotten what the goal is.
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.
The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord.
After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.
Because government has tremendous power, it attracts people who are eager to game the system, obtaining by force of law what they could never achieve through consensus.
But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a God to raise him to the dignity of a God.
