#attempt

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#complaints #enormous #had #haven #i

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. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#any #attempting #consider #devil #enemy

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things. ↗

— James Cameron

#attempt #build #engineering #fascinated #father

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. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#became #began #both #carry #cold

In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#attempt #dean #dean martin #enjoyed #everybody

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#attempt #card #cards #consular #criminals

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#cows #daring #eaten #enough #exists

You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back. ↗

— Peter Hain

#attempts #back #debate #deliver #expect

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community. ↗

— Anita Hill

#african-american community #african-american women #always #american women #attempt

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#attempts #check #eternally #expression #loathe