Attain

Famous quotes containing the word attain:

“Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,
That have but labored to attain this hour.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work—then I was never an artist.”
—Ellen Terry (1847–1928)

“Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)