#attempts

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#audiences #big #brought #contemporary #create

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

— Anthony Liccione

#breaking #change #days #future #history

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets. ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#attempts #clear #integrity #investors #markets

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#attempts #clearly #failures #fiction #had

All sins are attempts to fill voids. ↗

— Simone Weil

#fill #sins

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. ↗

— Robert Greenleaf

#communicate #many #much #saying #too

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

#abroad #along #article #attempts #been

Seated each afternoon in the darkened screening room, Halliday came to recognise the targeted numerals of the Academy leader as sigils preceding the dream state of a film. ↗

— William Gibson

#first-sentences #gibson #dreams

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#amount #attempts #burning #concerned #deep