Unsuccessfully Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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... our "Physick" and "Anatomy" have embraced such infinite varieties of being, have laid open such new worlds in time and space, have grappled, not…
— Thomas Huxley
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I tried a few times, unsuccessfully, to lose weight. It wasn't until I joined Weight Watchers that I was finally able to do it. I…
— Jenny McCarthy
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The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.
— Jessica Lynch
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Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in…
— Loren Eiseley
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People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in…
— Amy Gerstler
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It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies,…
— Albert J. Nock
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People routinely assume that pornography is such a difficult and divisive issue because it's about sex. In fact, this culture struggles unsuccessfully with pornography because…
— Robert Jensen
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Do what experts since the dawn of recorded history have told you you must do: pay the price by becoming the person you want to…
— Earl Nightingale
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Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for…
— Willa Cather
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So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing…
— Lin Yutang
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if…
— Daniel Gilbert
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I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
— Richard Eyre
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Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
— Aldous Huxley
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He should have said something, why hadn't he? Costis wondered. In fact, the king had. He had complained at every step all the way across…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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It made Costis wonder for the first time just how much the stoic man really wants to hide when he unsuccessfully pretends not to be…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Israel expanded beyond its original boundaries only because the Arab powers attacked Israel and the U.N. demarcation unsuccessfully in 1948. The endless caterwauling about the…
— Conrad Black
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I wish I can forget you as fast as possible. But I was unsuccessfully.
— Adelelina-WahwahChea
Who Wrote These Unsuccessfully Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Unsuccessfully Quotes as follows: