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1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And… — C.S. Lewis
We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by… — Ted Dekker
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have… — Graham Greene
Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot… — Andre Gide
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.… — Hermann Hesse
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. — Bertrand Russell
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim… — Ilona Andrews
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even… — Paulo Freire
When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call… — James Redfield
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a… — Nick Hornby
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are… — Sigmund Freud
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two… — Douglas Adams
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there… — Terry Pratchett
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or… — Ian Mcewan
And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. — Mitch Albom
â€¦I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. — Jeanette Winterson
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot,… — Immanuel Kant

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