#undertake

As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world. ↗

— Nathan Meyer Rothschild

#advantage #any #brothers #cause #compete

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#contrary #essays #his #i #i write

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you. ↗

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

#i #law #me #ruin #slow

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. ↗

— Neville Chamberlain

#big #british #british empire #cannot #circumstances

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#boxing #brain #get #money #name

I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister. ↗

— Jessica Mitford

#bury #i #just #nothing #personally

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#girl #hold #left #long #may

...that heaven might be no further afield than the hearts of those people who remember us with love. ↗

— Ari Berk

#the-undertaken-trilogy #death

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. ↗

— William Bligh

#been #command #former #his #increase

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard. ↗

— Hans Blix

#armed #certainly #denied #destruction #fear