The people whom she interviewed either remembered their present need of soap, or reminded themselves that they would need it in the future; the notable point in the case being that lucky Rebecca accomplished, with almost no effort, results that poor little Emma Jane failed to attain by hard and conscientious labor.
She was, indeed, extremely well fed: very much butcher's meat—to say nothing of bread, vegetables, and liquids—must she have consumed to attain that breadth and height, that wealth of muscle, that affluence of flesh.
Of this contrast I thought not, however: gay instincts my nature had few; ball or opera I had never seen; and though often I had heard them described, and even wished to see them, it was not the wish of one who hopes to partake a pleasure if she could only reach it—who feels fitted to shine in some bright distant sphere, could she but thither win her way; it was no yearning to attain, no hunger to taste; only the calm desire to look on a new thing.
I will say nothing to add to his anxieties, but I will take my own steps to attain my own end.
" This was a high plane of self-sacrifice for Felicity to attain.
I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it.
And if he should attain to all knowledge, he is yet far off.
" "Of course, I wish you to make discoveries: no one could more wish you to attain a high position in some better place than Middlemarch.
There are men whose desire for truth is so great that to attain it they will shatter the very foundation of their world.
Could one really attain goodness so violently?
And I'm sure you don't mean really that goodness, if one could attain it, makes one unhappy.
Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
)The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
) The important thing in life is to have a great aim , and the determination to attain it.
If I attain great wealth I will remember one unfed mouth.
If I attain great wealth I will remember one unfed mouth.
The commission also urged measures to attain a 50% rise in the proportion of depression patients getting professional medical help by 2022.
Use the ideas below to help attain your quest for mental fitness.
But I do believe — and with every fiber in me — that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps find the greatness of tomorrow.
