#attempt

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#based #elijah #everything #his #honorable

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#attempt #believed #both #both sides #brave

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#arguing #attempt #autonomy #certainly #even

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#banker #became #california #father #happened

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. ↗

— Albert Claude

#been #brutality #cell #constituents #destroyed

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. ↗

— John M. Ford

#author #certainly #decide #decipher #else

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. ↗

— Eric Gill

#analytical #attempts #bread #descriptive #does

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dedication #determination #drive #endurance #life

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#bite #good #iron #off #performer