#attempt

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#awkward #convince #desperate #having #hype

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. ↗

— Charles Keating

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Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law. ↗

— Bob Woodward

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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. ↗

— Amelia Barr

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Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure. ↗

— John Haggai

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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. ↗

— Andre Breton

#appeals #attempts #examples #exist #making

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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