No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost. — William Golding Copy Share Image
His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you. — Multatuli Copy Share Image
The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert Copy Share Image
An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness,… — Peter London Copy Share Image
We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the… — Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham 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
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the… — Herbert Spencer 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
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
“Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped… — Julie Murphy Copy Share Image
After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed. I… — Angela Cartwright 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
First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
It is, of course, clear that a country with a large foreign population must endeavour, through its schools, to assimilate the children… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has… — Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede Copy Share Image
Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss,… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Wake up with feeling like empty vase & strive to fill it today with untiring effort to your endeavour. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome. — Diane Dreher Copy Share Image
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety. — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
With all due respect, I have a job to do, and that is to try and make 'Endeavour' the best it can… — Shaun Evans Copy Share Image
To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret — Fela Kuti Copy Share Image