#endeavor

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

#horror #nerd-humor #oppel #this-dark-endeavor #humor

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#characters #complimentary #endeavor #fertilization #highest

I endeavor to make the most of everything. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#everything #i #make #most

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. ↗

— Paul Getty

#beauty #endeavor #few #find #human

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#endeavors #everybody #everybody else #expense #fiction

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors. ↗

— Dave Foley

#endeavors #main #poverty #stand-up #stand-up comedy

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#fairer #fairness #make #project #society

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#anew #create #endeavor #everything #see

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#aims #among #aspirations #collective #collective consciousness