Attempting Quotes

314 quotes by 293 authors

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history… — Bob Woodward
Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. — Douglas Rushkoff
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in… — Colm Toibin
Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from… — Vladimir Nabokov
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it… — Daisaku Ikeda
As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching… — Paul Rudnick
Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was imagining it was… — Alexandra Ivy
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting… — Mark Twain
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to… — Louise Bogan
Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. — Ram Dass
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit oneâ€™s emotions. — Ayn Rand
He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. — Terry Pratchett
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot,… — Immanuel Kant
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great… — Clive Barker
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. — Edwidge Danticat
I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.â€ â€”Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to… — Chuck Klosterman
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in… — Robert A. Heinlein
He wished she knew his impressions, but he would as soon as thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey… — Thomas Hardy

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