The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
David Herbert Lawrence

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
Ludwig Quidde

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
Major Taylor

This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.
Gustave Meyrink

TO comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.
Charles Inglis

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
George Boole

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
Lao Tzu

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
Citium Zeno

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
Anna Held

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.
Hedy Lamarr

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
Ramakrishna

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
Titus Maccius Plautus