Quotes:
No one can obtain from the Pope a dispensation for never dying
View quotes by Thomas A Kempis
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain [11 Cor 9-24]
View quotes by The Bible
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
View quotes by Doris Lessing
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
View quotes by Epicurus
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
View quotes by Demosthenes
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
View quotes by Jim Morrison
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
View quotes by Metastasio
Cats know how to obtain food without labour, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. [and they also have nine lives]
View quotes by W L George
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
View quotes by Igor Stravinsky
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
View quotes by John Stuart Mill
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
View quotes by Sydney Smith
The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes
I wish to state categorically that I am not a drugs cheat and would never seek to obtain a competitive advantage over my fellow professionals by such means.
View quotes by Petr Korda
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
View quotes by Jack Nicklaus
It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
View quotes by Winston Churchill
Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great
View quotes by Johann Georg Von Zimmermann
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.
View quotes by Jean Baptiste Colbert
We do not think much about using live 'lower' animals for our pedantic
scientific studies; I'm in favor of doing so, so long as we obtain written
or verbal informed consent from such subjects. Until such time, we're
selfish, callous, and benighted.
View quotes by Jason Merchey
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
View quotes by Aristotle
Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
View quotes by Benjamin Franklin
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