"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment……" — Susan Sontag
"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."
More Attainment Quotes
- Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge… — Mary Astell
- Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives. — Gerry Adams
- The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the… — Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able… — Joseph Campbell
- Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. — Miguel de Cervantes
- The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of… — George Washington
- You cannot do without one specialty. You must have some base-line to measure the work and attainments of others. For… — Louis Agassiz
- The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. — Ludwig von Mises
- I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand… — Napoleon Hill
- If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest. — Seungsahn
- The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully. — Lydia M. Child