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-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy
— William Golding
I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.
— Daymond John
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.
— Warren Buffett
Men unite against none so readily as against those whom theysee attempting to rule over them. — Xenophon
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.
— Cecily McMillan
You know, without a doubt, that surrender is the only option to fulfill whatever you are attempting.
— Jean Hamilton-Fford
Story shrugged, attempting casual. "We kissed and I don't know...I might have orgasmed on his leg or something. It happens, right?
— Tessa Bailey
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
— Oliver Goldsmith
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
— Terry Pratchett
The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.
— Orrin Woodward
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
— Douglas Horton
I think attempting to sell people an easy fix for pain is the worst kind of snake oil.
— Brene Brown
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
— Calvin Coolidge
It pains me deeply to see members of my own party attempting to legislate women's health and contraception choices.
— Linda Lingle
What do you think? she asked, pouting her lips attempting to imitate a model . . . or a duck. I wasn't sure which.
— Jamie McGuire
We're not attempting to circumcise rules.
— Bill Cowher
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.
— Alain De Botton
Hermione, Harry and Ron still seem to want to know you, judging by the way they were attempting to break down the door.
— J.K. Rowling
You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
— George Santayana
I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God
— William Carey
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
— William Cobbett
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
— John Stuart Mill
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
— William Vickrey
I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
— Robin Hobb
Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.
— Lisa Bevere
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.
— Robin McKinley
I lean my head back and close my eyes, attempting to figure out where I went right in my life to deserve her.
— Colleen Hoover
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.
— Steve Hockensmith
When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.
— Francine Prose
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
— David Levithan
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.
— H. Beam Piper
If you're not attempting to get someone to see, feel, think, or act in a particular manner, why bother communicating at all?
— Leonard Koren
Too many young people are being taught to give up their dreams before they have any experience attempting to pursue them.
— Robert Fritz
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
— Anthony De Mello
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— Patrick Rothfuss
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
— Arthur Machen
Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
— Jaron Lanier
To the north the Indonesian Air Force strafed Australian ships that were attempting to repel refugees from Indonesia and Timor and Papua. In
— James Bradley
The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
We spend our youth attempting to change the future, he explained, and the rest of our lives trying to preserve the past.
— Christopher Fowler
Leftist organizations are aggressively attempting to redefine America in their own Godless image.
— Jerry Falwell
What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.
— Gregory Crewdson
As the situation developed, the futility of attempting suicide in the middle of a hospital became apparent.
— Stieg Larsson
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
— Richard Preston
It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
Strike felt abnormally huge and hairy; a woolly mammoth attempting to blend in among capuchin monkeys.
— Robert Galbraith
That's sort of the idea that if we, in attempting to explain away that which is experienced, the experience itself is diminished.
— Fred Alan Wolf
Even if I spend every waking moment attempting to keep my life in balance, I'm going to fuck up. Having
— Tyler Oakley
The third year at a school for any head coach is the most important year for the program they are attempting to develop.
— George M. Gilbert
The sheer scale of what the Tories are attempting to do is staggering. But Sinn Fein will not agree to this ideologically driven austerity agenda.
— Martin McGuinness
true authority came from sharing the hard work, not attempting to place oneself above it.
— John Flanagan
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
— Edwidge Danticat
He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.
— Edgar Allan Poe
I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.
— Troy Soos
It is natural to feel helpless when attempting the impossible.
— George Hammond
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.
— Christiane Collange
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.
— Bill Johnson
It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.
— Heather Brewer
How could someone make decision after decision attempting to get away from their past and somehow end up right back where they were started?
— Nicole Jacquelyn
Attempting to recall the material you are trying to learn - retrieval practice - is far more effective than simply rereading the material.
— Barbara Oakley
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
— Paulo Coelho
You can accomplish great things by attempting great things.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Attempting to change our perception without changing our perspective is often an exercise in imagination. As
— Chaitanya Charan
Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing.
— Mike Birbiglia
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
— Rene Descartes
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
— Henry Kissinger
You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
If you are attempting the impossible, you will fail.
— Robert Heller
