Establish

Famous quotes containing the word establish:

“We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions—love, antipathy, charity, or malice—and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

“Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)