If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors. — Adolf Eichmann Copy Share Image
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The NRA is right...handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. — Josh Sugarmann Copy Share Image
If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
There are so many things that we could do but education would be our primary need in this regard. And in obtaining… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the… — Hubertine Auclert Copy Share Image
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The genius writer was correct. In obtaining freedom, man suddenly understands that he has shouldered a heavy burden, because freedom involves responsibility.… — Alexander Lukashenko Copy Share Image
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
About 85 per cent of my "thinking" time was spent getting into a position to think, to make a decision, to learn… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity. — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
If wealth is accumulated in the hands of a few, either by a feudal or a stock monopoly, it carries the power… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
There is a direct relationship between how we feel about Jesus Christ and how we see ourselves. We cannot increase our devotion… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of… — Antoine-Henri Jomini Copy Share Image
After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance,… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial… — George Washington Copy Share Image
