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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
Events
Men
Own
Minds
Would
More
Could
Open
Failed
Obtain
Frequently
Discover
Did
Regard
Really
Lives
Things
Desire
It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.
August Krogh
Work
Man
Technically
Insects
Bicycle
Doubt
Swimming
Birds
Respiration
Possible
Constant
No Doubt
Rate
Similar
Study
Obtain
Obtained
Metabolism
Fishes
Information
Certain
Flight
Treadmill
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
Mouth
Doubt
Swimming
Respiratory
Rapidly
Simply
Opening
Obtain
Make
Fishes
Movements
Little
Necessary
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
Best
People
Enough
Way
Ourselves
Best Way
Self-Confidence
Obtain
Empower
Burma
Want
Us
Help
The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
Ban Ki-moon
Destruction
Seriously
Long
Accident
Community
Design
Too
Possibility
Weapons
Threat
Horrific
Risk
Could
Take
Mass
Mass Destruction
Obtain
Does
Terrorist
Exist
Fiction
Dismissed
Should
Use
International
International Community
Groups
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
War
People
World
Safety
Independence
Half
Duty
Heroism
Our
Ourselves
Unparalleled
Fearful
Cost
Sacrifices
Since
Obtain
Also
Waged
German
German People
Against
Sea
Right
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell
Fate
Destroys
Seems
Struggled
Idealists
Ideals
Obtain
Form
Which
The requirements to obtain a concealed license are similar and often times stricter than that of obtaining a standard ID card.
Bill Flores
Stricter
License
Similar
ID
Concealed
Obtain
Obtaining
Times
Than
Often
Requirements
Standard
Card
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
Myself
Black
Exploitation
Kind
Longevity
Obtain
Trying
Establish
Want
Certain
Star
Image
Career
Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
Boris Spassky
Sacrifice
Important
Nowadays
More
Obtain
Material
Chess
Often
Dynamic
Element
Compensation
Players
We tend to always want to obtain something new and something more, and we never really enjoy what we have.
Craig David
Enjoy
Something
More
Something New
Tend
Never
New
Obtain
Always
Want
Really
Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.
David A. Bednar
Law
Dramatic
Immediate
Recognizable
Significant
Obedient
Some
Temporal
About
Diverse
Emphasize
Blessings
Obtain
Readily
Surely
Occur
Testify
Commandment
Often
Subtle
Teach
Receive
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
Win
Victory
Emotional
He
Smartest
Obtain
Always
Person
Barack
Room
Succeed
Believes
Need
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
David Ricardo
Alone
Country
Those
One Country
Bestow
Objects
Part
Almost
Goods
Obtain
Limit
Without
Greatest
Labour
Any
May
Which
Them
Procured
Far
Many
Necessary
Desire
In 2007, when I was governor of New York, I proposed that our state once again permit undocumented immigrants to obtain a driver's license. To say the proposal lit a firestorm in the political arena is an understatement.
Eliot Spitzer
Political
State
Our
Once
Say
Immigrants
License
Arena
Proposal
Proposed
Driver
New
Obtain
Understatement
Permit
Political Arena
Undocumented
Governor
York
New York
Lit
Again
Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed.
Fabrizio Moreira
You
Business
Before
Own
Ought
Once
Ensure
Unable
Take
Part
Simply
Obtain
Without
Motion
Where
Order
Biggest
Succeed
Might
Plan
Created
Your
Planning
Start
Careful
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
Knowledge
You
Legal
Law
Own
Some
Seek
Point
Writers
Over
Likely
Obtain
Efforts
Order
Information
Ponder
Your
Desire
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.
Francis Crick
Made
Own
Changes
Relative
Reliable
Mutation
Composition
Triplets
Data
My Own
More
Various
Attempts
Study
Until
Obtain
Within
Been
Order
Produced
View
Premature
Bases
Extensive
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
George Weah
Fight
Cause
Liberation
Must
Noble
Noble Cause
Obtain
Fellow
Revolutionaries
Access to water is an animal welfare issue, yet, unfortunately, governments still make it difficult and costly to obtain water licences and approvals to build and develop new water points.
Gina Rinehart
Animal
Water
Welfare
Build
Difficult
Costly
Points
Develop
New
Obtain
Make
Access
Still
Issue
Governments
Unfortunately
People in the precariat find themselves in the situation where the level of their education and qualifications is almost always higher than the sort of labour that they're going to be able to obtain.
Guy Standing
Education
People
Situation
Find
Able
Higher
Almost
Qualifications
Obtain
Sort
Always
Than
Labour
Going
Where
Themselves
Level
Millions of people in many so-called democratic countries have lost the right to vote, or never obtain it. And millions clearly feel that the political mainstream is not articulating a vocabulary or policies oriented to their needs and aspirations.
Guy Standing
Needs
Vote
People
Political
Lost
Vocabulary
Never
Mainstream
Feel
Clearly
Countries
Obtain
Democratic
Policies
Articulating
So-Called
Aspirations
Oriented
Many
Right
Millions
Millions Of People
The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.
Guy Standing
Prayer
Charity
Plead
Latin
Must
Degrading
Favours
Obtain
Authority
Ask
Root
Show
Figures
The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opinion without division among its people. We confirm to all journalists and media personnel in the kingdom of Bahrain that their freedom is preserved and their rights are safeguarded.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
Freedom
Rights
People
National
Preserved
Kingdom
Comprehensive
Shape
Facts
Division
Journalists
Bahrain
Obtain
Without
Opinion
Enable
Confirm
Them
Personnel
Media
Among
Eager
College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
Hank Johnson
Struggle
Benefits
Result
College
Peers
Completion
Significant
Jobs
Over
Obtain
Course
Repayment
Debt
Afforded
Who
Lives
Receive
If we introduce iron complexly into ooporphyrin, we obtain haemin.
Hans Fischer
Introduce
Obtain
Iron
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