But only vast popular movements and great currents of thought and of life can work effectively in those cases where the labours of politicians have revealed themselves as characterized by uncertainty and as being too traditional.

Now that these wings to speed my wish ascend, The more I feel vast air beneath my feet, The more toward boundless air on pinions fleet, Spurning the earth, soaring to heaven, I tend: Nor makes them stoop their flight the direful end Of Daedal's son; but upward still they beat: What life the while with my life can compete, Though dead to earth at last I shall descend?

For the Stage being the Representation of the World and the actions in it; how can it be imagined that the Picture of Human Life can be more exact than Life itself is?

If you like the game, and are in a position to play it at least twice a week, life can never be entirely gray.

"Absurd" to claim that while God who is the author of life can justify the taking of life, he cannot justify the sin of lying!

The most striking characteristic of Yeats's work is the pensive yearning for a spiritual love, for an unchecked joy, and an unchanging peace beyond what mortal life can give.

All that I shall say in its favor is, that it gives us an advantage with which any of the discomforts of life can not enter into comparison.

What did he want with a tag that any tuft hunter in public life can get?

But that life cannot be considered as an authority; for the documents from which it is said to have been compiled are neither quoted nor described by its author, nor have ever been seen by its present editor.

Europe received from Christianity ideas which were quite new to it, the Knowledge, I mean, of the fundamental truth that life cannot be an end-in-itself, that the true end of our existence lies beyond it.

Life cannot kill, it is disease and death that kill, and from the moment that Turkey passed from being a nomadic tribe moving westwards from the confines of Persia, it has existed only and thrived on a process of absorption and of murder.

We have a letter wherein Beethoven says: "Farewell, my dearest Thérèse; I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer.

He knows that she has fine abilities, but that they must be disciplined by trial and endeavor before her life can be rounded by success and triumph.

What greater gain in life can man e'er know Than when God-Nature will to him explain How into Spirit steadfastness may flow, How steadfast, too, the Spirit-Born remain.

Life cannot wait on death.

I wanted the money: not for any purpose of vice or superfluity, but for those purposes without which life cannot subsist.

But life can never be sincerely blest: Heaven punishes the bad, and proves the best.

The important known facts of his life can be told almost in a sentence.

Tradition forever asserts itself, the past is more powerful than all philosophers, and new traditions must be made before a new life can be had for society.

The second object is the building up a home and family, a place of rest, peace, security, in which child-life can bud and blossom like flowers in the sunshine.

Both were misfortunes for her, since only by living an orderly, controlled, and lawful life can any human being find happiness or self-respect in the world.

If they pictured rich draperies and rare gems, it was but to adorn with them the Blessed Virgin Mother and the holy saints, in token of their belief that all of pomp and value in this life can but faintly symbolize the glory of the life to come.

The lady who is hastening to the scene of action flutters her wings, displays her prospects of felicity, tells how she grudges every moment of delay, and, in the presence of those whom she knows condemned to stay at home, is sure to wonder by what arts life can be made supportable through a winter in the country, and to tell how often, amidst the ecstasies of an opera, she shall pity those friends whom she has left behind.

My every care, my every energy shall be employed to soften that deep anguish which" She could not complete the sentence, but quickly added, "the deep debt of gratitude I owe her, not a whole life can repay.

Absolute life can exist only of and by itself, else were it no perfect thing; but will you say that a mass of protoplasmthat proto by the way is a begged questionexists by its own power, appears by its own will?