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«In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.»
Author: John Webster
(Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Greatness,
Motivation
| Keywords:
blown, bubbles, in the air, pastime, pastimes, quest, wanton, wantons
«In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom»
Author: Mary Ritter Beard
| About:
Achievement,
Being a Woman,
Civil rights,
History,
Possessions,
Women
| Keywords:
achievements, emphasis, martyrdom, possessions, quest, quest for, wrongs
«Heroes know that things must happen when it is time for them to happen. A quest may not simply be abandoned; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever; a happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.»
Author: Peter S. Beagle
(Writer)
| About:
Ending
| Keywords:
abandoned, come in, ending, Happy ending, heroes, quest, The Story, The Unicorns, unicorns
«Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.»
«If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.»
«..fiery yearnings their own phantom-futures make, and deem it present. So, after all these fearful, fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained - - yet, in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.»
«I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.»
«Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplishes, betterment, career, discovers, his pen, pen, Personal self, quest, questing, quest after, quest for, sainthood, sooner, sooner or later
«The Castle Aaahhhgggg - our quest is at an end.»
«In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
arduous, clearer, clearness, crystal, crystals, crystal clear, deceptive, elusive, finds, quest, questing, quest after, resolves, resolving, the Crystal, The Path
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