Quotes about Attempting

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. Votes: 6

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries. Votes: 5

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. Votes: 4

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Votes: 4

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. Votes: 4

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. Votes: 4

The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain. Votes: 3

Attempting to grapple with improving end-of-life care is a political third rail. Votes: 3

Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that. Votes: 3

Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle... Votes: 3

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. Votes: 3

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. Votes: 3

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven. Votes: 3

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world. Votes: 3

I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God Votes: 3

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Votes: 3

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal. Votes: 3

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 every day observation. Votes: 3

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building. Votes: 3

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources. Votes: 3

Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution. Votes: 3

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. Votes: 3

Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line. Votes: 3

Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement. Votes: 3

It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. Votes: 3

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive. Votes: 3

Gun control has proved to be a grievous failure, a means of disarming honest citizens without limiting firepower available to those who prey on the law-abiding. Attempting to use the legal system to punish the weapon rather than the person misusing the weapon is similarly doomed to fail. Votes: 3

Attempting to do anything you haven't done before is always uncomfortable, and usually scary, but it is ALWAYS worth it. Fear disappears in the midst of action, and a better version of yourself awaits you on the other side of your fear. Feel the fear, and do it anyway... Votes: 3

Attempting to build a language wall around Quebec is precisely the wrong policy to follow. It will keep out of Quebec exactly what we need to attract by way of talent and capital; it will drive our best - francophones as well as allophones and anglophones, with their talents and capital - to leave Quebec. Votes: 3

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere. Votes: 1

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives. Votes: 1

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting. Votes: 1

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. Votes: 1

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. Votes: 1

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here. Votes: 1

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. Votes: 1

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one. Votes: 1

We're not attempting to circumcise rules. Votes: 0

Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions. Votes: 0

If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail. Votes: 0

Taking 1,000 meetings attempting to get backing to do clothing... Votes: 0

Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity. Votes: 0

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. Votes: 0

Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights. Votes: 0

attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. Votes: 0

Creativity is a powerful force for anyone attempting to heal themselves. Votes: 0

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice. Votes: 0

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself. Votes: 0

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite. Votes: 0

Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence. Votes: 0

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible. Votes: 0

Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image. Votes: 0

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery. Votes: 0

You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do. Votes: 0

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail. Votes: 0

The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them. Votes: 0

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane? Votes: 0

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist. Votes: 0

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs. Votes: 0

If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage Votes: 0

Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged. Votes: 0

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them. Votes: 0

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit. Votes: 0

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much. Votes: 0

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy. Votes: 0

As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent. Votes: 0

Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion. Votes: 0

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets. Votes: 0

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. Votes: 0

It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. Votes: 0

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. Votes: 0

A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. Votes: 0

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. Votes: 0

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel. Votes: 0

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting. Votes: 0

He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk. Votes: 0

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. Votes: 0

How many relationships have been ruined by two people attempting to squeeze the Jesus out of each other? Votes: 0

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. Votes: 0

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill. Votes: 0

There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. Votes: 0

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. Votes: 0

Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new. Votes: 0

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare. Votes: 0

It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices. Votes: 0

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Votes: 0

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. Votes: 0

The most reliable ways to make oneself miserable are attempting to change people and not attempting to change circumstances. Votes: 0

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. Votes: 0

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration. Votes: 0

When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal. Votes: 0

We [the U.S.] think nothing...of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs. Votes: 0

Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind. Votes: 0

A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right. Votes: 0

Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way. Votes: 0

I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone. Votes: 0

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. Votes: 0

The key to attempting to create art in some aspect is also knowing that it will turn some people off. Votes: 0

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children. Votes: 0

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Votes: 0

Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them. Votes: 0

There is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch than by censoring the leaves. Votes: 0

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language. Votes: 0

When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity. Votes: 0

I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life. Votes: 0

I considered not getting up, but recognized the pain of staying down was worse than the pain of attempting to stand. Votes: 0

I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else. Votes: 0

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. Votes: 0

Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain Votes: 0

It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer. Votes: 0

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table. Votes: 0

That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished. Votes: 0

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth. Votes: 0

The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God. Votes: 0

Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field. Votes: 0

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. Votes: 0

What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all? Votes: 0

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character. Votes: 0

I'm against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections. But as long as it's doable I'm going to do it. Votes: 0

There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly. Votes: 0

There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations. Votes: 0

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Votes: 0

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20. Votes: 0

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it. Votes: 0

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. Votes: 0

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. Votes: 0

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business. Votes: 0

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. Votes: 0

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals. Votes: 0

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs. Votes: 0

People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do. Votes: 0

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases. Votes: 0

Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale. Votes: 0

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings. Votes: 0

I hate myself pretty often" .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. "Pretty fucking often Votes: 0

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt. Votes: 0

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him. Votes: 0

... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, several companies are attempting to deceive consumers through the unauthorized use of my image or my name, and my attorneys are pursuing those making these false claims. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I remember the review from Michael Wilmington in Chicago, and Gene Siskel wrote really smart reviews where I thought, "Oh, they totally get what we're attempting to do." Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People must understand that people were beaten, arrested, jailed, and some people were murdered, while attempting to register to vote, or to get others to register to vote. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This message (that attempting to beat the market is futile) can never be sold on Wall Street because it is in effect telling stock analysts to drop dead. Votes: 0

The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go. Votes: 0

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel. Votes: 0

I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way. Votes: 0

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women. Votes: 0

When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink. Votes: 0

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting. Votes: 0

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy. Votes: 0

See? You’re the crazy one, you redheaded freak. I’ve been attempting to translate the phrase into Latin. If I ever succeed, I shall make it my personal motto. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly bowl their way to oblivion. Votes: 0

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the industry has put in place for "women directors." Votes: 0

It is critical to have a sound understanding of traditional culinary principles before attempting to push boundaries in cuisine. Larousse Gastronomique helps me execute the progressive cooking we do at Alinea. Votes: 0

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better. Votes: 0

Every writer scrounges for inspiration in different places, and there's no shame in raiding the headlines. It's necessary, in fact, when attempting contemporary satire. Sharp-edged humor relies on topical reference points. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My personal definition of rock'n'roll is people attempting to do something that's beyond their ability to do it well. And whatever the outward contradictions, I do call us a rock'n'roll band. Votes: 0

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one from jagged bits filched from deranged brains. Votes: 0

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity. Votes: 0

Most people use their energy attempting to rearrange circumstances that trigger painful emotions. Changing external circumstances will not change your rigid patterns of emotional response. That requires looking at the patterns themselves. Votes: 0

When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual. Votes: 0

I have been attempting to meditate more. Golf is my state of peace, though. The tranquility of a golf course, all of the trees, the oxygen. It puts me right at ease. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I swear you're a woman. (Devyn) I would respond to that, but I don't want to distract you while you're attempting to drive and I'm dependent on you for my life. (Sway) Votes: 0

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ...It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life. Votes: 0

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. Votes: 0

Saxon and I had no business even attempting any type of relationship with each other. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility. Votes: 0

The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom. Votes: 0

The greatest mistake physicians make is that they attempt to cure the body without attempting to cure the mind, yet the mind and the body are one and should not be treated separately! Votes: 0

As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and the Establishment, Scientific Humanism is attempting to do just that. Votes: 0

Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which spread rabies within the park, and cutting down traps. Votes: 0

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do. Votes: 0

Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They were like fire and water, two opposing forces forever lost in an epic rivalry. Quite frankly, it would have been easier attempting to break a deal with wild horses than these two boys. Votes: 0

Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation. Votes: 0

There are also many instances where people hostile to the Soviet state are attempting by means of deceit and provocation to poison the minds of our citizens and compel them to believe in monstrous lies. Votes: 0

You will arise, so start by attempting to rise. Don't give space for failure to erect local huts in your land; agree that you are constructing a global edifice there! Think possibility and be hopeful!" Votes: 0

One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires. Votes: 0

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall. Votes: 0

If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it. Votes: 0

The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood. Votes: 0

I'm new to the Twitterverse and so I'm attempting to build my followers. I'm trying to be a better tweeter. I try not to tweet too much, just when I've got something worthwhile to say. Votes: 0

Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work. Votes: 0

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character. Votes: 0

It just seems that you were talking positively about McDonald's, that they are... attempting this healthy lifestyle, and yet when we're talking right now... it seems that you're saying they need to make more responsibility. Votes: 0