Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices… — Arvind Gupta Copy Share Image
The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away! Never be impressed by calling attentions that tell you to give… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat… — Giraldus Cambrensis Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making… — Yael Naim Copy Share Image
I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed. — Til Schweiger Copy Share Image
Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
“Try, try, try again, you never know, what you can accomplish, when you make many attempts.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“SOLVE BY RESOLVE - Use lessons learned from failed attempts to reinforce commitment” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.” — Nancy Means Wright Copy Share Image
I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Both of my parents are actors and directors and whatnot. My dad loves really solid, old school, Broadway musicals, and one of… — Will Rothhaar Copy Share Image
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image