Undertake Quotes
226 quotes by 180 authors
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Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given,…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence,…
— James Madison
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The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you’re so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow…
— Joel Osteen
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In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement.…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
— Deepak Chopra
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For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight…
— Zadie Smith
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Uncertainty is a quality to be cherished, therefore – if not for it, who would dare to undertake anything?
— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
— Carolyn Keene
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Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we…
— Orhan Pamuk
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He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no…
— Sharon Shinn
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Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
— Stephen Levine
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But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way…
— Paulo Coelho
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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