Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Who will in time present pleasure refrain, shall in time to come the more pleasure obtain.
Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.
Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to French-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.
Consequentialist theories pretend that we can set some great big ends (the general happiness, human flourishing), provide ourselves with definite enough conceptions of them to make them the objects of instrumental reasoning, and then obtain enough reliable information about what actions will best promote them that we could regulate our conduct by these considerations alone.
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.
The ways of the British are inscrutable but they always seem to obtain their own ends without compromising their dignity or their honor.
Thanks be to blessed Nature that she has made what is necessary easy to obtain, and what is not easy unnecessary.
When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here. "
I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.
You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.
To obtain something, something of equal value must be lost.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.