Attempting Quotes

314 quotes by 293 authors

That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what… — Karl Urban
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who… — Mary Jo Bang
Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as… — Eric Metaxas
When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white… — James A. Baldwin
The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But… — Harriet Quimby
The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational… — Charles Krauthammer
It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do… — Bob Proctor
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. — Xunzi
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. — Douglas Tompkins
It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer. — Elliot Aronson
To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or… — Thomas Jefferson
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. You can fool anyone, apart from the young. The worst are the lip operations. There… — Karl Lagerfeld
Please. Donâ€™t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt donâ€™t express it, at least… — Sarah Kane
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic… — H.G. Wells
This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts… — Paul Samuelson
How I envy those clerks who go by to their offices in the morning! There's the day's work cut out for them; no question of… — George Gissing
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally… — Paul Washer
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves… — Douglas Preston

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