Aspiration

Famous quotes containing the word aspiration:

“My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

“When a man’s life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men’s actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)