If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.] — Horace Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives… — Lowell Milken Copy Share Image
Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
