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We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.
Anne Carson
Struggle
Starting Over
Language
Thought
Sense
Every
Syntax
Kind
Some
About
Attempt
Unconscious
Over
Talking
Accuracy
Human
Grammar
Means
Drag
Starting
Mush
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
Anne Enright
Time
Me
You
Own
Believe
Books
Exactly
Some
Obliged
Writer
Attempt
Days
Know
Read
Am
Still
Up
Ireland
Then
Really
Choice
Your
Doubts
Grow
Grow Up
I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.
Anne Graham Lotz
God
Religion
You
Man
Think
Attempt
Reach
Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.
Anthony Doerr
Time
You
Memories
Memory
Lose
Think
Back
Facing
Attempt
Know
Learned
Ties
Erased
Grandmother
Eventually
Her
Watching
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Archibald Alexander
Heart
Will
Evil
Plead
Pleading
Valid
Our
Attempt
Never
Instead
Sin
Excuse
Sinful
Condemnation
Very
Being
Justify
Apology
Ground
Acts
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
Arianna Huffington
Women
Differences
Characteristics
Futile
Sexes
Would
Would-Be
Pretense
Ability
Attempt
Masculine
Between
Attitudes
Disastrous
Suppress
Force
Female
Fit
Up
Pattern
Them
Skills
Specifically
Keeping
I have never hated my job; I only hate its negative results every time I attempt to do something amazing.
Arnel Pineda
Time
Hate
Amazing
Negative
Job
Every
Every Time
Hated
Something
Only
Results
Attempt
Never
In his final year in office, Clinton decided that his contribution to Middle East peace would lie not in the removal of Saddam Hussein but in a grand attempt to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel. With this, he missed his last chance to deal forcefully with the man he was publicly committed to overthrowing.
Arthur L. Herman
Man
Peace
Conflict
Lie
Year
Resolve
Final
East
Would
Hussein
Attempt
He
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Between
Missed
Removal
Deal
Israel
His
Clinton
Office
Contribution
Committed
Middle
Middle East
Decided
Grand
Publicly
Palestinians
Last
Chance
My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
Time
Nature
Attempt
Failed
Times
Again
Even
I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to.
Ashton Kutcher
Sad
Mustache
Pretty
Attempt
Grow
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Language
Frantic
Oaths
Followed
Scene
Shall
Attempt
Gestures
Taunt
Cannot
Little
Fights
Therefore
Describe
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian
Confidence
Fall
Dismayed
Difficult
Other
Easy
Case
Attempt
Were
Tasks
May
Asleep
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
Bayard Rustin
God
Conflict
Obey
Law
Will
State
Must
Follow
Attempt
Surely
Am
Times
Compelled
You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
Beau Willimon
Failure
You
Try
Before
Other
Side
Everything
Way
Tried
Something
Only
Through
Attempt
Never
Head
Over
Until
Always
Wall
Get
Banging
Just
Want
Against
Interesting
Succeed
Interesting Thing
Your
Thing
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
Ben Affleck
Old
First
Enough
Attempt
Failed
First Thing
Reagan
Understood
Get
Politically
The First Thing
Old Enough
Really
Assassination
Thing
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
Ben Kingsley
Strange
People
Think
Touch
Attempt
Most
Lot
Very
Child
Keep
Actor
The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control.
Benjamin Tucker
Government
Control
Attempt
Essence
After 'A Love Extreme,' I thought I must do something that stands up to that - at least. I can't top it. You should never attempt to top something that is magical, because that's just bad magic.
Benji Hughes
Love
You
Thought
Extreme
Top
Bad
Must
Magic
Magical
Something
Attempt
Never
Because
Least
Up
Just
After
Should
Stands
Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.
Bill Blass
Women
Add
Entice
Individual
Attempt
Calculated
Piece
Wardrobe
Each
Each Individual
Whatever I do, I attempt to do it fully. I try, and don't always succeed, to be thorough. There are musicians who do not know their worth, and if they knew it at one time, it has eluded them. I know my worth. You try not to dwell in the past.
Bill Dixon
Time
You
Musicians
Worth
Try
Past
Whatever
Thorough
One Time
Attempt
Knew
Know
Always
Dwell
In The Past
Succeed
Them
Who
Fully
If cleverness has often been a sign of decadence throughout history, the attempt to be too clever by half is an even more reliable marker of cultural decline.
Bill Kristol
History
Half
Clever
Too
Sign
Reliable
More
Throughout
Attempt
Cleverness
Been
Cultural
Decadence
Often
Decline
Even
An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.
Bob Beckel
Education
Best
Problem
School
Local
Local School
Find
Thousands
Districts
Charter
Charter Schools
Could
Outright
Attempt
Students
School Districts
Failures
Attract
Schools
Were
Provide
Often
Them
Choice
Meant
Many
Brightest
Level
Early
If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn't even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.
Brendan Iribe
You
First
Back
Tablets
Invented
Attempt
Like
Look
Were
Getting
Just
Them
Newton
Even
Apple
Things
After learning of a failed attempt to hack the state's online voter registration and My Voter Page, my office contacted the Department of Homeland Security and opened an investigation.
Brian Kemp
Learning
State
Security
Online
Hack
Investigation
Attempt
Failed
Opened
Voter
Office
Department
After
Registration
Page
Homeland
Homeland Security
When Castro was put on trial in 1953 by Batista's government and asked who was intellectually responsible for his first attempt at insurrection, he dropped the name of the poet Jose Marti.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
Government
Poet
First
Trial
Responsible
Castro
Attempt
He
Put
Dropped
Name
Insurrection
His
Intellectually
Asked
Who
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
Carlisle Floyd
You
Will
Predict
Once
Possibly
Write
Attempt
Doomed
Ages
Last
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