Quotes with attempting

Quotes 21 till 23 of 23.

• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder

  Barbara Jordan
  American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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• You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

  Angela Davis
  American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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• You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

  Lord Melbourne
  British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unemployment
• contemptible
• leadership
• understand
• manifest
• ridicule

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