There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much. — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions… — Conrad Hall 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
Let the world unfold without always attempting to figure it all out. Let relationships just be, since everything is going to stretch… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept… — Daisaku Ikeda 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
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
The profitable part of the online business is very likely several years away. Entering the business because it's the hot topic of… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country ... he knows… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone… — Howard Whitley Eves Copy Share Image
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist. — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
“I lean my head back and close my eyes, attempting to figure out where I went right in my life to deserve… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Pretending to be okay is a natural defense mechanism of the mind. A persons way of attempting to remains strong! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically. — Armaan Malik Copy Share Image
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion. — Hank Green Copy Share Image
A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt. — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge 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
Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle... — Mooji Copy Share Image
