- Great
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- 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
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot deny reality: that ISIS is systematically attempting to exterminate Christianity, to exterminate the Yazidi community, to exterminate other religious minorities in vast areas in Iraq and Syria.
- Dismal
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- Nov 07, 2020
As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The googly and the slider are my favourite type of deliveries, and I love it when batsmen try to cut or sweep me and, while attempting those strokes, get lbw or clean bowled.
- Frenchman
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- Nov 07, 2020
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
- Hammering
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- Nov 07, 2020
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Hammering
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- Nov 07, 2020
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learned not to let the fear of failure stop us from attempting to fulfil our dreams - whether that dream involved a change in career, attempting to set world records, or helping young people.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the male side of my family, cancer has been very insidious, and so I'm just attempting to live a lifestyle that doesn't follow in their footsteps.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
- Applying
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the midst of applying for American citizenship, of finally attempting to get my presidents in a row, I felt it incumbent upon myself to explore the national psyche in every way.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pandora's box of unholiness is attempting to sing anything that Freddie Mercury ever sang.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, status and etc., so naturally, we find ourselves attempting to earn love, acceptance and validation along with that. Here's the trip: we do it at the cost of other people and, more importantly, ourselves.
- Alongside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to choose friends based on similarity in age and life stage, but I've learned that those were the wrong criteria. Trying to live life exclusively alongside others our own age is like attempting to climb Mt. Everest without a Sherpa. It's a little dangerous.
- Circumstances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020