#reach

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ↗

— Democritus

#battle #children #life #only #raising

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#god #i #mankind #offended #quality

It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#anybody #fact #follow #humane #life

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#cannot #high #i #me #my soul

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#age #around #been #careful #chance

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#being #being there #devoted #energy #hand

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.' ↗

— Celine Dion

#blonde #couple #craziest #cut #done

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. ↗

— Virgil

#air #descent #easy #enough #infernal

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off. ↗

— William O. Douglas

#court #get #had #i #me