Attempt Quotes

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People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. — Charles Dudley Warner
I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry… — Curt Weldon
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the… — H.G. Wells
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to… — H.G. Wells
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will… — Kanye West
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion… — E. O. Wilson
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. — Woodrow Wilson
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. — William Butler Yeats
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available… — Douglas Rushkoff
You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact… — Woody Allen
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl) — Eoin Colfer
Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what… — Philip Pullman
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that… — Edgar Allan Poe
That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if… — Charles Bukowski
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest… — A A Milne
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most… — Adam Smith
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in… — Aldous Huxley
At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say,… — Eric Clapton
Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely… — Hermann Hesse

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