#attempt

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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.


Andy Goldsworthy


#attempt #beneath #energy #get #i

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.


Robert Greenleaf


#communicate #many #much #saying #too

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.


Merle Haggard


#hour #life #look #may #more

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.


Albert Bushnell Hart


#been #colonial #cut #had #importation

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.


Albert Bushnell Hart


#caused #effort #england #growth #immense

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.


Robert Herrick


#doubt #end #find #hard #never

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#answer #asking #attempting #cannot #existence

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.


Thomas Hood


#against #attempt #conceited #like #people

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.


Edward Hopper


#believe #canvas #emotions #force #great

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.


Edward Hopper


#any #attempt #character #deny #french