Quotes About Dedication

He had been so married to her that he had grown pius himself, because he had believed in her piety.

But a person can believe something so hard they lose sight of everything else.

I'll say this for her, she sticks to what she believes. But a person can believe something so hard they lose sight of everything else.

doing well at the things she wants to do well at.

Christ asked for everything he got.

when not sentencing priests to be burnt at the stake, Fermat dedicated himself to his hobby.

Gozar de las cosas bellas le basta; acepta el lujo y la vida fácil, le gusta la felicidad. Yo necesito una vida devoradora. Necesito obrar, gastarme, realizarme, necesito un fin que alcanzar, dificultades que vencer, una obra que cumplir. No estoy hecha para el lujo. Nunca podrá satisfacerme lo que le satisface.

Por otra parte, yo era extremista: quería todo o nada. Si amaba sería para toda la vida y me daría entera con mi cuerpo, mi corazón, mi cabeza y mi pasado. Me negaba a picotear emociones, voluptuosidades ajenas a esa idea. A decir verdad no tuve oportunidad de probar la solidez de esos principios, pues ningún seductor trató de conmoverlos.

Am înv??at, de asemenea, c? pentru a p?trunde taina lucrurilor trebuie, înainte de toate, s? te d?ruieÈ™ti lor.

To will is to engage myself to persevere in my will.

Bien loin qu'elle se voue à l'homme parce qu'elle se sait inférieure à lui, c'est parce qu'elle lui est vouée qu'acceptant l'idée de son inferiorité elle la constitue.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Always do what will cost you the most.

Faithful service is often unnoticed by men but it never remains unnoticed by God.

She wanted, just now, to have a cell in a settlement-house, like a nun without the bother of a black robe, and be kind, and read Bernard Shaw, and enormously improve a horde of grateful poor.

Mary was the wife of Fowler Greenhill, M.D., of Fort Beulah, a gay and hustling medico, a choleric and red-headed young man, who was a wonder-worker in typhoid, acute appendicitis, obstetrics, compound fractures, and diets for anemic children.

The gospel crew could never consider their converts as human beings, like waiters or manicurists or brakemen, but they had in them such a professional interest as surgeons take in patients, critics in an author, fishermen in trout.

You know,' I answered, with some emotion, for I had never seen so much of Holmes' heart before, 'that it is my greatest joy and privilege to help you.

Y jamás se mostraba tan formidable como después de pasar días enteros en su sillón, sumido en sus improvisaciones y en sus libros antiguos.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details. My friend Watson could tell you that I spent a whole morning in that exercise. It is no easy matter, and requires a strong and practiced arm.

For the love of his art

There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

Some of us have hearts, you know. Some of us don't give up on true love.