Attempting Quotes
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.
Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.
Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.
I'm against very wealthy people attempting to or influencing elections. But as long as it's doable I'm going to do it.
Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.
While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.
Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.
When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
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.
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.
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind.
English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.
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 it is you're attempting to do.
It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.
I'm sure thousands of people in the world are taking on twice what I am attempting. I'm really looking forward to it all.
I think that by telling the truth and by attempting to be a good citizen, somehow I've ended up playing with fire. And that's really scary.
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.
I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
Bankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
