Attempt Quotes

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Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is… — P.J. O'Rourke
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are. — Charles Caleb Colton
Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well. — Andy Rooney
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit… — Frederick William Robertson
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the… — Thomas Szasz
An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere,… — Albert Einstein
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to… — Elbert Hubbard
The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure… — Henry A. Kissinger
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience… — Kenneth Tynan
The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design… — Edward Hoagland
If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you… — Francesco Guicciardini
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained. — Hosea Ballou
The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in… — David Mamet
A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to… — Eugene V. Debs
At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. — Martin Amis
The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious… — Norman O. Brown
One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when… — Tom Hodgkinson
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden
I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a… — Cynthia Nixon

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