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Work
Guests
I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.
- Alain Ducasse
Only
Toward
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
- Albert Camus
Never
More
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.
- Alison Jackson
Work
All Americans
We must continually work to obtain and preserve the right to vote and future votes of babies in the womb, their parents, the sick, the elderly, the poor, all Americans.
- Alveda King
Desire
Discover
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
- Andre Maurois
Sometimes
Blood
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
- Andrew Jackson
Peace
Never
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
- Dalai Lama
Important
Most
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work.
- Daniel J. Bernstein
Always
Need
With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.
- David Garrow
Quantity
Rent
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of profit, rent, and wages, but by the quantity of labour required to obtain that produce.
- David Ricardo
Believe
Senses
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
- Jim Morrison
Fortune
Been
Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
- Johann Georg Zimmermann
Identify
Means
Our struggle is to identify the sources of revenue and the means to obtain the funds. Without funds, all the planning and research studies can't help us.
- John Breaux
Student
Meant
I knew that as a pharmacy student I would obtain military deferment. As I was of Jewish origin, this meant that I would not have to serve in a forced labor unit of the Hungarian army.
- John Harsanyi
Psychology
In 1946, I re-enrolled at the University of Budapest in order to obtain a Ph.D. in philosophy with minors in sociology and in psychology.
- John Harsanyi
Deep
Salt
Every corporation worth its salt is throwing money at Deep Web research, not least Google. The company that unlocks the mysteries of the Deep Web will obtain power of an enormous magnitude.
- John McAfee
Will
We Cannot
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
- John Perry Barlow
Freedom
Which
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.
- John Stuart Mill
Wisdom
Best Way
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Rat
Compulsion
Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.
- Julie Burchill
Doubt
Necessary
There can be little doubt that fishes swimming rapidly do not make respiratory movements at all, but obtain the necessary ventilation of the gills simply by opening the mouth.
- August Krogh
Want
Best Way
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Give
Nor
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
Doing
Diligent
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
- Benjamin Franklin
Sacrifices
German
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.
- Bernhard von Bulow
Iron
Introduce
If we introduce iron complexly into ooporphyrin, we obtain haemin.
- Hans Fischer
Fate
Which
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
- Bertrand Russell
New
Britain
The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
- Harold Edward Holt
Career
Image
For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.
- Billy Dee Williams
More
Shall
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.
- Helena Blavatsky
Add
Requirements
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
- Henri Bergson
Over
Which
It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control.
- Henry Charles Carey
Chess
Important
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
- Boris Spassky
Execution
More
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.
- Igor Stravinsky
Want
Sure
You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
- J. B. Pritzker
The Most Important
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.
- Jack Nicklaus
Presidency
Ever
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
- James A. Garfield
Desire
Aspire
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
- James Allen
Anxiety
Beware
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
- Demosthenes
Making
Inanimate
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
- Jean Hanff Korelitz
Politics
Been
Historically, the pull towards the center in European politics has been incredibly powerful. From Italy to Germany, it has been almost impossible for non-centrist forces to obtain real influence.
- Jens Nordvig
Rome
Atmosphere
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
- Edmonia Lewis
Give
Other
The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.
- Emily Martin
Power
Which
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
- Epicurus
Costs
Been
Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
- Ernst Thalmann
Some
Over
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
- Felix Adler
Very
Laws
The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
- Florence Nightingale
Given
Means
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
- Frederick William Robertson
Benefits
Using
Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.
- Gary L. Francione
Writing
Very
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
- Leon Uris
Rights
Authority
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
- George Bancroft
Suppliers
Created
Value is created for the customer, and that allows our suppliers, agents and staff that work with Sany to obtain success.
- Liang Wengen
Noble Cause
Fellow
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
- George Weah
Study
Radicals
For polyatomic free radicals and ions, one is dependent both for the ground states and the excited states on the study of electronic spectra to obtain the shapes and the geometrical parameters.
- Gerhard Herzberg
Graduation
College
Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
- Ruth Ann Minner
Friendship
Does
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
- Theophile Gautier
Honor
Lose
Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
- Saint Ignatius
Death
Mankind
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
- Plautus
Slaves
Smiles
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.
- Samuel Hopkins
Which
Esteem
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
- Thomas Paine
Too
Esteem
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
- Thomas Paine
Money
Needs
Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.
- Gregg Easterbrook
Center
Appears
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
- Major Taylor
Some
Editorial
When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.
- Scott McCloud
Wealth
Person
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
- Nassau William Senior
United
However
The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.
- Nelson A. Miles
Which
Receive
The blessings of the priesthood are available to every righteous man and woman. We may all receive the Holy Ghost, obtain personal revelation, and be endowed in the temple, from which we emerge 'armed' with power.
- Sheri L. Dew
Country
Thursday
It is simply unacceptable for people to sneak into this country illegally on Thursday, obtain a government-issued I.D. on Friday, head for the welfare office on Monday, and cast a vote on Tuesday.
- Sonny Perdue
Generation
Abroad
Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Country
Which
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
- O. Henry
Reflection
Which
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
- Origen
Love
Ease
Quit Babylon for love of the Babylonians.And do not seek ease or security you can obtain by using Babylon. What will it avail you to cease living in Babylon if you do not also cease living on Babylon?
- Vincent McNabb
Law
Subordinate
As long as Palestinian violence exists, but not a Palestinian state, Israel is in danger, because it cannot obtain assistance from the international community against an entity that is not subordinate to international law.
- Stephane Hessel
Love
Pet
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
- W. L. George
Small
Capital
Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
- Melissa Bean
Which
Income
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
- Paul Dirac
Nothing
Been
Man's greed to obtain something for nothing has never yet been able to content itself with a moderate profit.
- Will C. Barnes
Faithfulness
Which
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
- William Ames
Sure
Been
It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.
- Roger Clemens
Process
Through
Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms.
- William Bratton
Always
Been
Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.
- Romain Grosjean
Medical
Need
Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.
- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Working Class
It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household items without incurring the burden of debt.
- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Deal
Making
We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.
- Michael McCaul
Intellect
Using
I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect.
- Temple Grandin
Disease
Treatment
Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
- Xavier Becerra
Goal
Palestine
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.
- Yasser Arafat
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