Endeavoured Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to…
— Joshua Slocum
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People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to…
— Alice Bailey
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We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
— Roderick Murchison
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I have divers times endeavoured to see and to know, what parts the Blood consists of; and at length I have observ'd, taking some Blood…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in…
— Samuel Johnson
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and…
— Orson Pratt
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During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my…
— Johannes V. Jensen
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In the first part of 'Rights of Man' I have endeavoured to show...that there does not exist a right to establish hereditary government...because hereditary government…
— Thomas Paine
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I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his…
— John Keats
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I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.
— Nelson Mandela
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The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are…
— Bernard Berenson
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
— Laurence Sterne
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One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that…
— John Hanning Speke
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I have never settled for the notion of being an ordinary person living an ordinary life. I have always believed in and seen something more…
— Trinity Chasara
Who Wrote These Endeavoured Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Endeavoured Quotes as follows: