Attempt Quotes

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My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup… — Corazon Aquino
Desire is an attempt to feel the void. — Hamza Yusuf
A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation,… — Maurice Samuel
Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month,… — Chip Heath
I am closest of all to happinessâ€”although I wonâ€™t attempt to define just what it isâ€”when I turn away from the window and am aware,… — Victor Pelevin
I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of… — Judy Collins
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win. Even though you… — Phil Ochs
The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own… — Theodor Herzl
No enduring improvement can occur without righteous exercise of agency. Do not attempt to override agency. The Lord himself would not do that. Forced obedience… — Richard G. Scott
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a… — James Cameron
Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is… — W. E. B. Du Bois
There is nothing that can replace the absence of someone dear to us, and one should not even attempt to do so. One must simply… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is â€¦ political, even… — Amiri Baraka
If you are unsure of a course of action, do not attempt it. Your doubts and hesitations will infect your execution. Timidity is dangerous: Better… — Robert Greene
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story… — Jonathan Safran Foer
There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. — Jaime Lerner
The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as… — Nikola Tesla
I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now — Clifford Geertz
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents,… — Gregory Bateson
China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a world, is in… — Henry A. Kissinger

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