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trying
I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance. Bryan Ball
trying
It can be done without trying to browbeat people. Kevin Madden
trying
We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship. Drew Brees
trying
We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.
trying
I was just trying to put on a show. Andre Iguodala
trying
I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.
trying
I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.
trying
I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.
trying
I could see that they were serious, ... Winning's important. I wanted to be a part of what they're trying to accomplish.
mediocrity praise
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately. Luc de Clapiers
mediocrity
Mediocrity is contextual. David Foster Wallace
mediocrity genius consideration
Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
mediocrity mediocre honorable
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word. Thomas Mann
mediocrity rise-above stakes
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 Tom Robbins
mediocrity want fit
The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you. Seth Godin
mediocrity settling uncomfortable
It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.
mediocrity exhausting
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
mediocrity quiet stills
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. John Suckling
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
literature classic produce
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
literature doe students
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature now-and-then made
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean