Attempt Quotes

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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of… — Samuel Johnson
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. — Henry David Thoreau
It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is… — Alison Croggon
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his… — George MacDonald
[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that… — C.S. Lewis
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt… — Jane Austen
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple… — Seraphim Rose
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception. — Edgar Allan Poe
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by… — Vaclav Havel
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit… — Anthony Burgess
-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt. — Lloyd Alexander
Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent. — Fumiko Enchi
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility… — Ambrose Bierce
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and… — Pope Benedict XVI
With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them. — Galileo Galilei
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary… — Hermann Hesse
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry… — Charlaine Harris
The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences… — Audre Lorde
An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded… — Salman Rushdie
Colin decided then and there that the female mind was a strange and incomprehensible organ - one which no man should even attempt to understand.… — Julia Quinn

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