Whoever, with an earnest soul, Strives for some end from this low world afar, Still upward travels though he miss the goal,… — Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer Copy Share Image
“Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“There is strife (trouble) the moment one enters the worldly life and bliss the moment one enters the Self [the Soul].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
After the assassination of my wife, our nation was perilously close to civil strife. If I, as the co-chairman of the Party,… — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
All strife concerning Christ's testaments cometh hence that men do not understand that Heaven wherein Christ sitteth at the right hand of… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
At end of Love, at end of Life, At end of Hope, at end of Strife' At end of all we cling… — Louise Chandler Moulton Copy Share Image
Some men enjoy the constant strife Of days with work and worry rife, But that is not my dream of life: I… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
May the time not be far off when all other European nations will come to the realisation that the primary necessity is… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Heraclitus once said "we cannot exist without strife" but that does not mean we cannot co-exist without it.” — Anike Kirsten Copy Share Image
We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is… — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Man toils, and strives, and wastes his little life to claim-- At last the transient glory of a splendid name, And have,… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on earth there are two kinds: one of them a man… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
Christ taught us truth; the Devil teaches us falsehood, and strives in every way to contradict every truth; devising various calumnies against… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world;… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Tis reason's part To govern and to guard the heart, To lull the wayward soul to rest, When hopes and fears distract… — Nathaniel Cotton Copy Share Image
O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims. — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence… — Richard Crashaw Copy Share Image
Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
A tribe, let us say, is warlike. The successes for which it strives, the achievements upon which it sets store, are connected… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
“May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be… — Keisha Keenleyside Copy Share Image
While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . . — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image