Quotes about attempt
attempt bargain believes foot fulfill great survey
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there. M. John Harrison
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We're extremely troubled by the prospect that the legislature is attempting to hold our proposed merger hostage, and to that end we will be considering all options, including the legal route.
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I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success. Katrina Kaif
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did. Kenneth Choi
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When they tell me I'm too old to do something, I attempt it immediately. Pablo Picasso
attempt running sharing stopping trying
We're sharing a poll, not sharing an election, ... It's our first attempt in stopping all this everyone running around and trying to vote.
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We're sending a united message to Waste Management that it's time to do the right thing by the people who keep New York's neighborhoods clean and disease-free. One hundred and twenty hardworking men and women with families were forced on strike by this company's attempts to gut our pay, benefits and particularly our health care. Sanitation work is a dangerous job with a high injury rate. Yet Waste Management is drastically raising the price of our health care while cutting coverage -- at a time when they're making record profits.
attempt government possible
possible attempt by Belgrade to oust his government.
attempt politics power prestige
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. P. J. O'Rourke
attempt formulate obvious polling public
Polling is not allowed. That?s an attempt to formulate public policy. It?s obvious that would be an attempt to circumvent the law.
attempt closer
Personally, I see the need for it. Their attempt is to get closer to where they need to be.
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My teammates did their best to help but our plans were blown up in the final kilometers by escape attempts by cyclist of rival teams. Filippo is a good cyclist and deserved victory. I'm sorry for missing a second straight triumph here. I just lacked a bit of good luck.
attempted english four lines minor poem poet specialty william
Only one English poet of our own day, and that a minor one, has attempted to make the poem of four lines a specialty - that is William Watson. Lafcadio Hearn
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On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.
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One of the main reasons for the lottery scholarships was an attempt to stem the tide of many of the best high school students in South Carolina leaving the state. Clearly that is working.
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I was so glad to see Gina get it tonight. What's impressed me most about her is how she got it. She always put the team first and was never selfish in an attempt to get her points. She's a true team player.
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I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.
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I believe we have our most talented group. We have attempted to stay consistent in following the plan. We have improved each season and I think this will be the most competitive team we've had. Dom Capers
attempt believe belonging black certain history remember sign written
I believe that there are certain contexts in black communities as a sign of belonging and an attempt to remember that history will be written away.
attempt believe family hang mean naturally people prolong source together
I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so Samuel Butler
attempt please pride strong students trying
I am trying to make a very strong attempt to keep my students happy, ... That is very much my pride to please my children.
attempt decisions influence outside
I am the decision-maker on this project. I have had no attempt from the outside to influence my decision. Peter Clarke
attempts break david decided election kinds trick voters
I am very disappointed that David decided to break Ohio's election laws. But I think that voters can see right through these kinds of attempts to trick them.
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Bush may make serious attempts at reforming the tax code and social security; he's much less concerned with the risk of failure than previous presidents have been. The expected need to replace two or three Supreme Court justices, however, could so poison the water in Washington that very little will get done. (That is, unless he nominates Professor Tyson, who would be a model jurist). Sean Cunningham
attempted based fact felt fight hands throat wrapped
Based on the fact that she felt she was in a fight for her life, it constitutes attempted murder. It was his actions, with his hands wrapped around her throat and that she couldn't breathe.
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Basically, he pushed the kid out of the car in an attempt to deflect attention from himself to the child, and that certainly worked, bought him some time, and he's been able to get away thus far. But now, he's causing the charges to mount, because he pushed the kid out, and that's a dangerous thing.
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China should make a larger attempt to solve the lingering problems of farmers whose land was inadequately or randomly compensated in the past, and I am sure it will.
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Chris, in his mind, was basically on a mission from God. He believed in a higher authority. His mother was not going to stand in his way. He was attempting to stop the abortionists. He was attempting to stop the pornographers. He wanted to save children.
attempt beyond books honest inevitably life models record trying
My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care. John Updike
attempt classic sort
My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff. James Mercer
attempts cover darkness desperate ego familiar mind narcissism
more of what I know about me. I think you live more and become more familiar with the workings of your own mind -- the darkness in it, the narcissism -- and the desperate attempts the ego makes to cover that up. Patrick Page
attempts office successful twist
may be the twist that makes this more successful than other attempts to erode the (Microsoft) Office franchise.
attempt colleagues exploit seeking tragic
Now they are seeking to exploit the tragic -- but not unforeseeable -- murders of their colleagues in an attempt to derail the proceedings.