Attempt Quotes

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The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such… — Karl Kraus
An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality. — John Galt
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. — Joanne Harris
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples. — Calvin Coolidge
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have… — Hans Haacke
There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence… — Mark Gevisser
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends… — George Haven Putnam
In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any… — C.S. Lewis
It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,… — Lesslie Newbigin
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of… — Louis Bromfield
Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections. — Peter Prange
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in… — Bill Nighy
The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to… — Bill Nighy

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