#succeeded

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#generating #great #joy #multiplying #opportunities

In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded. ↗

— Ferdinand Piech

#far #few #few people #force #me

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned. ↗

— Henry Adams

#calling #divinity #effort #every #every man

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target. ↗

— Douglas Bader

#close #did #fire #open #pilots

It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed. ↗

— Herman Cain

#fault #someone #succeeded

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#aware #concerns #consciousness #gender #i

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua? ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#bringing #contra #economic justice #government #had

Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just noted, held to be impossible? Or was there some disturbing circumstances from one or more factors which distorted the result? ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#circumstances #distorted #disturbing #factors #had

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#i #left #much #noticed #sort

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet. ↗

— Ferdinand Piech

#door #during #me #nobody #out