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True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
What 'Flashpoint' does is examine the inherent inconsistencies in Shade's past and attempt to explain it and give it some logic.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
I learned early that it's very important to approach every single kick you attempt, even those in practice, as if it were in a game.
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
Most youngsters are so well-connected with the rock music circle that they will know instantly if I attempt to imitate any rock star.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.
No one always or never does anything. People don't see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
Some in favour of Brexit are so fixated on leaving the E.U., they keep arguing that any attempt to change it is some form of sabotage.
When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.
I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.
When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.
I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.
Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.
I continue to look for opportunities to learn on a daily basis. I try not to settle into a routine, and I attempt things that challenge me.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.
I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!
The arrogance of secular Jews regarding the ultra-Orthodox community and their attempt to impose on it a different lifestyle is inappropriate.
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.
In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.
The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me, then that's great.
Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.
In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
My first attempt at writing a novel was horrible. I had to throw it away. But I stuck with the idea, which is what became 'The Invisible Circus.'
Eventually I ran for the board of the WTA, lost my first attempt, got on the board my second attempt, and stayed there through most of my career.
The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be 'woke.'
I am lucky because I often get my makeup done by professionals, and they always try new ideas; I'll attempt to vaguely recreate what they've done.
Lawmakers who attempt to find solutions to the havoc ObamaCare has wreaked across the nation are taking healthcare protections away from newborns.
Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to form a memory.
I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.