Quotes of: Attempts Keyword

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

Attempting Normal

For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? .

The Age of Reason

I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. "Pretty fucking often

The Highest Tide

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Killosophy

Here we attempt to answer those questions that arise most frequently. YES, THAT IS WHAT 'FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS' MEANS, THANK YOU.

The Shadowhunter's Codex

Dream thieves are those who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other people's dreams to work on. They suffer to do attempt what they can't do,

Shaping the dream

Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give up! Insist, Resist and Persist to the end!

Shaping the dream

You cannot stare evil in the face; it has no face. It has no body, no bones, no blood. Any attempt to describe it ends in glibness and self-delusion.

The Monster of Florence

I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.

Murder at Fenway Park

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world... then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

Leisure: The Basis Of Culture

This chapter is an attempt to share with you some insights about story listening and how to do it.

Listening and Caring Skills in Ministry: A Guide for Groups and Leaders

If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.

The Little Prince

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life

The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.

Team Of One: We Believe

Philosophy is the critically reflective, systematically articulated attempt to illumine our human experience in depth and set it in a vision of the whole.

The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures.

One Long Thread

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

The Poisonwood Bible

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

The Paris Review Interviews, IV

There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

The Palace of Love

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel