Quotes of: Attempting Keyword

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Peaches for Father Francis

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

Prom and Prejudice

SOLVE BY RESOLVE - Use lessons learned from failed attempts to reinforce commitment

Profound Vers-A-Tales

What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

Quixotic

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

Writing Degree Zero

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain...

Russell Means

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

Hilary Mantel

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Natasha Trethewey

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

Philip Emeagwali

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought.

Peter Fraser

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Potter Stewart

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

Richard J. Codey

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

Robert Cormier

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Robert Lanza

Obama's only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated.

Rush Limbaugh

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Samuel Johnson

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.

Simon McBurney

I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.

Tracy Chapman