It can be passed on, but not received. It can be obtained…

“Never would I run away from great difficulties, because once it's over I will have obtained what I worked hard for.”

— Christopher Ford

From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled…

— John James Audubon

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and…

— Fritz Sauckel

While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge,…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they…

— August Krogh

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of…

— James Loeb

In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced…

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr

The public is very forgiving. So we're not trying to obtain some level of perfection that can't be obtained. But if you're straightforward and…

— John Shimkus

A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to…

— Brendan I. Koerner

Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact…

— Baruch Spinoza

no knowledge obtained without risk

— Stephen King

“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It…

— Charles Platt

Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins -…

— Barton Gellman

Peace is obtained by war.

— Cornelius Nepos