Attempting Quotes
Words for every leap of effort.
This set gathers lines about the act of trying itself, whether it is chasing an economic forecast, holding a shaky budget together, or simply picking a direction and sticking to it. For more on staying the course, see Always quotes.
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the...
By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.
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I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my...
Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.
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 won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
Othello is someone who's just had a victory, and it's the aftermath of coming back and attempting to live comfortably as a civilian.
As we continue to work to pass comprehensive immigration reform, we must take action to stop these predators who are exploiting immigrants attempting to play by the rules.
I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.
At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to sit down and write my first novel. I had never written anything longer than a couple of pages till then and was foolishly attempting...
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.
I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.
I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
Always attempting to tame and subjugate nature is not the solution. But the latest science is helping us to map out a path across this shifting landscape in uncertain times, showing us how to work with natural forces, not against...
Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.
In some future America, there could be a plausible Michael Bloomberg path to the Democratic nomination. I would love to read a column by a smart person actually attempting to persuade me of this, using evidence.
