Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.
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.
Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining.
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.
Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. Nothi...
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.
the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive.
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.
You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available!
Life is not permanent problems with the goal of obtaining peace. Its permanent peace with occasional problems.
Chase had looked at the apartment—online—talked to the real estate agent—online—obtained references—online. Now, standing in the hallway, it was obvious he’d gotten fucked—online.
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
