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«A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.»
Author: Franklin Pierce
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
anomalies, anomaly, attempting, Histories, republic, The Histories
«A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.»
«Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology»
Author: Muriel Spark
| About:
Men and Women,
Wives
| Keywords:
alphabetical, alphabetical order, attempting, chronology, close order
«If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
(Author, Cartoonist)
| About:
Ability,
Courage,
Learning
| Keywords:
attempting, skill, so much
«As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.»
«A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.»
Author: Horace Mann
| About:
Desire,
Learning,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
attempting, cold iron, hammering, inspiring, pupil
«A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Fulfilment
| Keywords:
asking, attempting, fulfil, The Object of
«He moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk»
Author: Terry Pratchett
(Writer)
| Keywords:
attempting, in a way, moved, nonchalant, record, speed, suggested, suggesting, world record
«I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere. . . . And it's that willingness to slow down and examine the mysterious bits of fluff in our lives that is the poet's interest.»
«Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.»
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