You're a real sport," said Larry. "Besides," replied his mother, "we have Scripture for it. You remember what it says? 'If a man strive for masteries yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.' 'Except he strive lawfully,' you see. The crown he might otherwise win would bring neither honour nor pleasure."
"Good again, Mother. You ought to have a place on the League committee. We shall have that Scripture entered on the rules. But I must run and dress.英文原著 · 《The Major》
If a stranger is admitted to the /cenacle/, every member of it in turn will say (not without a trace of irony), "You will not find the brilliancy of your Parisian society here," and proceed forthwith to criticise the life led by his neighbors, as if he himself were an exception who had striven, and vainly striven, to enlighten the rest. But any stranger so ill advised as to concur in any of their freely expressed criticism of each other, is pronounced at once to be an ill- natured person, a heathen, an outlaw, a reprobate Parisian "as Parisians mostly are."英文原著 · 《The Deserted Woman》
"O Zarathustra," said they, "gazest thou out perhaps for thy happiness?"-- "Of what account is my happiness!" answered he, "I have long ceased to strive any more for happiness, I strive for my work."--"O Zarathustra," said the animals once more, "that sayest thou as one who hath overmuch of good things. Liest thou not in a sky-blue lake of happiness?"--"Ye wags," answered Zarathustra, and smiled, "how well did ye choose the simile! But ye know also that my happiness is heavy, and not like a fluid wave of water: it presseth me and will not leave me, and is like molten pitch."--英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
My suffering and my fellow-suffering--what matter about them! Do I then strive after HAPPINESS? I strive after my WORK!英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
His heart, that strained and yearned and strove
As toward the sundawn strives the lark,
Is cold as all the old joy thereof.英文原著 · 《A Century of Roundels》
But since my thoughts in thinking still are spent. With reason's strife, by senses overthrown; You fairer still, and still more cruel bent, I loving still a love that loveth none: I yield and strive, I kiss and curse the pain, Thought, reason, sense, time, You, and I, maintain.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
The exact words were: "Strive for no exceptions." - Meaning. - So Winston's the perfect fit.美剧 · 《Billions》
♪ I strive for precision ♪ ♪ My aim is to be accurate and clear ♪ ♪ I don't say things I don't know to be true ♪ ♪ So believe me When I tell you I love you ♪ ♪ I don't write good love songs ♪ ♪ I'm not adept with metaphors or rhymes ♪ ♪ I just want to describe The things I know ♪ ♪ And the only thin美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》