#attempt

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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


#already #attempt #aware #events #fear

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


John Haggai


#doomed #failure #god #impossible #something

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

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.


Ted Lindsay


#attempt #benefits #clubs #filed #increased

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


John C. Ransom


#critic #demanded #much #poet #too

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


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#attempted #begun #close #done #each

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


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#done #earned #nights #repose #something

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.


Horace Mann


#attempting #cold #cold iron #desire #hammering

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