Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools.… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Ewan McGregor stars as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi, again doing a fine Alec Guinness impersonation but otherwise seeming lost and alone in the… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
Daphne," he said with controlled gentleness, "what is wrong?" She sat down opposite him and placed a hand on his cheek. "I'm… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for… — William Carey Copy Share Image
I swear you’re a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don’t want to distract you while you’re attempting to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try… — Eric Ladin Copy Share Image
The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God. — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
It's one of the ironies of mountaineering,' said Young, 'that grown men are happy to spend months preparing for a climb, weeks… — Jeffrey Archer Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
In truth, one of our company, the solemn warrior Ecthgow, was so demented from liquor that he was drunk while still upon… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
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