Let the Grand Mujik mutter a thousand heresies, let three-quarters of the world accept and live them, you would not think the unaspiring three-quarters broken spirited. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Its not just a case of improving the school - by being able to get into an establishment that wasn't tainted by unaspiring kids and parents it allowed the ties to be cut. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Our politicians should always should always keep in mind the saying from the Mahabharata: niriho nasnute mahat, "The unaspiring shall never enjoy greatness." ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2007)
As for the rural countryside, “We were in the heart and home of priestcraft—of a happy, cheerful, contented ignorance, superstition, degradation, poverty, indolence, and everlasting unaspiring worthlessness.” ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
Every great man, who gains a great end by dishonest means, does more to deteriorate his country and lower the standard of his countrymen than legions of vulgar thieves, or nameless unaspiring rogues. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Low walls, unaspiring roof, and sheltering veranda, so contrived as to create, not tickling, fidgety draughts but smooth currents, “so full as seem asleep,” to flush each room so sweetly and softly that no perceptible difference between the air under the roof and of the forest is at any time perceptible. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For where are the destinies of persons thus exquisitely organized -- thus full of love and loveliness -- thus readily swayed to joy or sorrow, by the trivial incidents of life -- characterised by what the world calls happiness -- such happiness, I mean, as is enjoyed by the serene and the prudent, the unexcitable, the unaspiring! ❋ Various (N/A)
Or did that flame burn intensely enough to survive so that his spirit should rise out of the commerce, the routine, the unaspiring neighbourly atmosphere which is the dull _clay_ of life? ❋ Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (N/A)
An English thinker, on the other hand, finds in the very language of France the evidence of superficial emotion and unaspiring, irreverent intelligence. ❋ Various (N/A)
Long generations of unaspiring humility have bequeathed her this soft and candid sign of distinction: as her turn comes in the line of inheritance she spends her life in keeping unsullied its difficult purity, and she will leave to her daughters the critical task of its equipoise. ❋ Various (N/A)
I too have, by implication, found this fault with Browning; but Mr. Nettleship differs from me in that he apparently delights to dwell on the idea of woman's accepted inferiority -- her "tender, unaspiring love ... type of that perfection which looks to one superior." ❋ Ethel Colburn Mayne (N/A)
From the first moment I saw that girl, at an humble and unaspiring distance, I could dream of nothing else. ❋ Various (N/A)
-- So then the little too can suffer! the ignorant, the indigent, the unaspiring! ❋ Various (N/A)
Speakers, and disdainfully rejected by the nervous and weighty; it was compelled to subside into the peaceful and unaspiring mediocrity we are speaking of. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
For even these limited and unaspiring talents are not to be employed carelessly, but with a kind of industrious negligence: for as some females are most becoming in a dishabille, so this artless kind of ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)
The unaspiring priest remained at Green Bay, to continue, or rather to resume, as a task laid aside only for a time, his ministrations to the savages. ❋ J. L. McConnel (N/A)
Anybody who is acquainted with the slums of any American metropolis knows that that is the quarter where poor immigrants foregather, to live, for the most part, as unkempt, half-washed, toiling, unaspiring foreigners; pitiful in the eyes of social missionaries, the despair of boards of health, the hope of ward politicians, the touchstone of American democracy. ❋ Mary Antin (1915)
I know what I thought of people who said that Chelsea was a very small, dull, unaspiring town, with no discernible excuse for a separate name or existence. ❋ Mary Antin (1915)
