Obtaining Quotes

124 quotes by 106 authors

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. — Finley Peter Dunne
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… — Joseph Addison
In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining… — Bill Frist
But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them. — Sathya Sai Baba
The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American… — Stephen Harper
The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long… — Armstrong Williams
If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man… — Luther Burbank
In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats. — Napoleon Bonaparte
[When a young person loses faith in his religion because he begins to study science and its methodology] it isn't that [through the obtaining of… — Richard P. Feynman
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the… — Jean de la Bruyere
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the… — Samuel Johnson
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in… — John F. Kennedy
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing… — Daniel Handler
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… — Peter Kropotkin
And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which… — Tim Wise
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as… — Benjamin Franklin
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. — John Adams
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires,… — Leo Tolstoy
Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining… — Samuel Johnson
It does not appear to me to be open to question that there is in the soul of man a nature and an order obtaining… — George Edward Woodberry

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