Obtaining Quotes - Page 5

• Ningún hombre que haya ocupado el cargo de presidente felicitaría a un amigo por haberlo obtenido.

  John Adams

  Men, Office, Presidential

  Carta a Josiah Quincy, 14 Feb. 1825

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• 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, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ambition, Mean, Patriotism

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• La juventud llega al mundo con prejuicios muy felices a su favor. Se imagina no sólo segura de realizar cualquier aventura, sino también de obtener las recompensas que su realización pueda merecer. No se convence fácilmente de que la fuerza del mérito pueda ser resistida por la obstinación y la avaricia, o su brillo oscurecido por la envidia y la malignidad.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Adventure, Accomplishment

  Samuel Johnson (1828). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.199

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• El placer de esperar disfrutar es a menudo mayor que el de obtenerlo, y la realización de casi todos los deseos se encuentra con una decepción.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Wish, Pleasure

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.116

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• Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Mean, Pleasure

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• Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes.

  Richard Hamming

  Sports, Interesting, Intellectual

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• Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.121, Wildside Press LLC

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• La vida no puede haber tenido un comienzo aleatorio. ... El problema es que hay unas dos mil enzimas, y la probabilidad de obtenerlas todas en un ensayo aleatorio es sólo de una parte en 10 a la potencia 40.000, una probabilidad escandalosamente pequeña que no podría afrontarse ni aunque todo el universo consistiera en sopa orgánica.

  Fred Hoyle

  Two, Trials, Enzymes

  "Evolution from Space". Book by Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle, 1981.

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• The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all the other branches, since the first step in obtaining any knowledge of things about us is to discriminate between them and to learn to recognize them.

  Richard E. Blackwelder

  Knowledge, Science, Taxonomy

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• I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Instruction, Superiors

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• Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Drawing, Communicate

  John Ruskin (2015). “A Joy Forever”, p.126, John Ruskin

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• We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Order, Profound

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• Aunque estés al borde de la condenación, aunque tengas un pie en el infierno, aunque hayas vendido tu alma al diablo como hacen los hechiceros que practican la magia negra, y aunque seas un hereje tan obstinado como un diablo, tarde o temprano te convertirás y enmendarás tu vida y salvarás tu alma, si -y fíjate bien en lo que digo- rezas devotamente el Santo Rosario todos los días hasta la muerte con el fin de conocer la verdad y obtener la contrición y el perdón de tus pecados.

  Luis de Montfort

  Cristiano, Religioso, Oración

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• Comprar un libro no es obtener una posesión, sino asegurarse un portal.

  Laura Miller

  Libro, Curación, Comprar

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• It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.

  William Vickrey

  Guarantees That, Land, Humanity

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• There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Way

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• Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Beautiful, Race

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 6-9 of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation”, p.4

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• En todas las ramas del saber, el progreso es proporcional a la cantidad de hechos en los que basarse y, por tanto, a la facilidad para obtener datos.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Data, Progress, Branches

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.209, CUP Archive

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• Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.

  Aumentar Mather

  Men, Grace, Soul

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• ¿Qué clase de idiota descerebrado hace falta para creer realmente que las leyes sobre armas impedirán que los delincuentes obtengan y porten armas?

  Neal Boortz

  Creer, Arma, Ley

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• Hay dos maneras de salir de una prueba. Una es simplemente tratar de librarse de la prueba, y estar agradecidos cuando termine. La otra es reconocer la prueba como un desafío de Dios para reclamar una bendición mayor de la que jamás hemos tenido, y aclamarla con deleite como una oportunidad de obtener una medida mayor de la gracia divina.

  A. B. Simpson

  Blessing, Opportunity, Two

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• Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

  Theodor Herzl

  Law, Requirements, Firsts

  Theodor Herzl (1960). "Herzl dice lo que piensa sobre temas, acontecimientos y hombres".

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• If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge. . . .

  Orson Pratt

  Faith, Mind, Bears

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• PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method . . . of obtaining money by false pretences [by] "reading character" in the wrinkles [of] the hand. The pretence is not altogether false. . . for the wrinkles in every hand submitted plainly spell the word "dupe."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Reading, Character

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• The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Pay, Difficulty, Complaints

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.142

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