Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
Beware the meek. . . for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.
Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).
There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky to canoe down it.
There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.
The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.
It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps. . . Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.
Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence.
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner
While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching.