- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am now confident about attempting a Hindi film. I believe if you have a good story to tell, audiences will watch it.
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1960s, reaching for the moon meant just that. It was a metaphor for attempting the impossible, and we attempted it, and we did it. And it inspired millions of people in every way. The number of science graduates in this country doubled in the 1960s at every level - high school, college, Ph.D.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition.
- Balloons
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not satisfied with the ending of 'Mount Eerie' the album, so maybe by calling myself that, I am attempting to elaborate on the ending.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appears that the Obama Administration is attempting to silence public comments and once again pander to extremist mining opponents seeking to undermine a bipartisan jobs bill that is estimated to create approximately 3,700 new jobs and generate $60 billion dollars for our economy.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.
- Doubtless
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.
- Kick
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it wasn't for finding out that my right leg could kick a ball really far, which is what I did, I am 100 percent certain that I would be attempting to be or would be a professional wrestler.
- Dragged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
With his mendacity and increasingly virulent attacks on immigrants, Muslims, women, the press, the judiciary, the intelligence services, the F.B.I. - any group or institution that he finds threatening or useful as a scapegoat - Mr. Trump is attempting the Orwellian trick of redefining American reality on his own terms.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020