Attempt Quotes

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The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. — Criss Jami
The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.'… — Daniele Vare
I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact… — Friedrich Nietzsche
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other… — John F. Kennedy
Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between… — E. M. Forster
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success… — William Hazlitt
As Godâ€™s chosen, blessed sons and daughters, we are expected to attempt something large enough that failure is guaranteedâ€¦unless God steps in. — Bruce Wilkinson
Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak,… — Emma Goldman
You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they… — Heinrich Heine
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. — Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. — Noel Gallagher
There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. — Indira Gandhi
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. — Mahatma Gandhi
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. — John W. Gardner
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? — Vincent Van Gogh
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. — Emma Goldman
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city,… — Andy Goldsworthy

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