Undertakes Quotes

55 quotes by 44 authors

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own… — William O. Douglas
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
The man of true genius never lives before his time, he never undertakes impossibilities, and always embarks on his enterprise at the suitable place and… — Joseph Henry
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on… — John Owen
Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for… — Sigmund Freud
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for… — Oscar Romero
Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. — Harold Rosenberg
Whoever devotedly undertakes and performs this most holy journey... shall have the enjoyment of eternal reward from the repayer of all men. — Pope Eugene III
Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a… — K. M. Soehnlein
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that… — Socrates
As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from… — Abraham Lincoln
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon… — James Henry Hammond
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones. — Ambrose Bierce
Poetryâ€™s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky
There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as… — Lizabeth Scott
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. — Ambrose Bierce
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them. — Samuel Johnson

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