Attempting famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Angela Davis -
By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
-- August Strindberg -
Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.
-- Celia Green -
When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain.
-- Cliff Richard -
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.
-- Dan Brown -
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.
-- David Lynch -
A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
-- Greg Reid -
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.
-- John Newton -
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.
-- Jonathan Coe -
Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
-- Paul Samuelson -
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
-- Richard Preston -
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.
-- Sarah Kane -
attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
-- Tennessee Williams -
While most managers spend their time attempting to predict the future accurately - and while that's valuable - the best managers are able to generate a future which was not going to happen otherwise - that is, a future which was not predictable.
-- Werner Erhard -
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 -
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
-- Xunzi -
Despotic rules are attempting to deprive women of their rights.
-- Yousef Saanei -
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."
-- Rania Attieh -
To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.
-- William Henry Willimon -
We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.
-- Alan Price
