My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.
Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.
Study is to study what cannot be studied. Undertaking means undertaking what cannot be undertaken. Philosophizing is to philosophize about what cannot be philosophized about. Knowing that knowing is unknowable is true perfection.
Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
A schism has taken place among the chemists. A particular set of them in France have undertaken to remodel all the terms of the science, and to give every substance a new name, the composition, and especially the termination of which, shall define the relation in which it stands to other substances of the same family.
If a war be undertaken. . . before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.
Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either.
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.
The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.
Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.