One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere. — Salman Khurshid Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I love doing 'Castle.' We pump out 24 episodes in 10 months, and we work long hours. We do lots and lots… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavor to wear as much… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord. — Sallust Copy Share Image
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
