#endeavour

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed

Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#always #bottom #endeavour #just #rung

I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church. ↗

— Giles Gilbert Scott

#case #church #delicate #endeavour #every

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. ↗

— Richard Steele

#i #look #me #morality #oblige

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#appealing #approach #dear #dissolution #endeavouring

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 the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#conformity #difference #ease #endeavoured #especially

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

#endeavour #hard #i #i think #mean

For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#nature

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#get #life #more #out #polygamy