Attempt Quotes
1586 quotes by 1221 authors
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Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them,…
— Galileo Galilei
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Judge: And what is your occupation in general? Brodsky: Poet, poet-translator. Judge: And who recognized you to be a poet? Who put you in the…
— Joseph Brodsky
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It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a…
— William P. Young
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to…
— Boris Pasternak
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I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip…
— Michel Houellebecq
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A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.
— Ilona Andrews
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Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that…
— N.D. Wilson
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Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and…
— Erich Fromm
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Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot…
— M. Russell Ballard
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beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is…
— Charles Bukowski
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
— Simone Weil
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The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none…
— Theodore Dreiser
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
— Jonathan Swift
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Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make…
— Jane Yolen
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The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run…
— Alvin Toffler
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Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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