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«I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.»
Author: Arnold Palmer
(Golfer)
| About:
Chance,
Effort
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, Against Me, at odds, entirely, even chance, felt, odds, quit, seemed, total
«It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.»
Author: Francis Maude
| Keywords:
a bit, bit, disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, homosexuality, pointless, rain, seemed
«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admire, concomitant, concomitants, detest, detested, detesting, detests, egotism, generosity, greed, meanness, openness, seemed, sharpness, traits
«A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Perseverance
| Keywords:
a little, effort, glorious, hopeless, persistence, seemed, turn, turn to
«Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still»
«All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.»
«Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
| Keywords:
autograph, autographed, autographing, autographs, chamberlain, chamberlains, gentleman, seemed
«'Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
break even, break wind, by and by, cathedral, charm, dreamy, keyholes, mortals, organ, rush, seemed, The Cathedral, The Sound, Through the Keyhole, whistled, whistles, whistling
«If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
browse, browsed, browsing, convey, conveying, conveys, impression, land, on the other hand, opened, Out of Control, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, seemed, store, testing, The Impressions, tramp, tramped, trampoline, tramps
«All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.»
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