#attempt

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#attempt #authority #comes #effort #hold

The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#away #dead #felt #first #forced

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. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out. ↗

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

#attempt #being #cannot #carried #colored

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work. ↗

— Dave Sim

#literary #literary work #work

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

#audience #choice #made #manipulate #our

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. ↗

— Margaret Young

#backwards #happier #live #lives #money

Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#attempt #been #civilization #conquest #duty

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#breaking #change #days #future #history

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all. ↗

— Rebecca Donovan

#chance #courage #determination #emma #important