#attempt

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent. ↗

— Ed Helms

#because #cappella #converse #cool #daring

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

— Charles Keating

#being #ever #grand #here #i

Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along. ↗

— David Keene

#any #attempt #been #beginning #both

However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#accepted #after #attempts #barbarians #canadian

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. ↗

— Michael Korda

#fail #failure #freedom #from time to time #going

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#every #grounds #intolerance #kind #legislation

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

It may be a mistake to say this, but I know my limitations as an actor and I know what I can and can not do. Robert De Niro can do everything. I can't. A 'Highlander' movie is basically my thing. What I'm attempting to do is develop my ability as an actor and try to be the best I can be in the fantasy/action genre. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#action #actor #attempting #basically #best

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. ↗

— Walter Martin

#away #devil #false #lead #people

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other. ↗

— Henry Miller

#been #death #defeat #deny #inevitably