Attempt Quotes

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Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act… — David Mamet
Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to… — Charlaine Harris
He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen. — Emily Bronte
I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in… — Richard Linklater
Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If… — Richard Wright
It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger… — Cornelia Funke
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the… — John Cage
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting… — Ayn Rand
When something seems â€˜the most obvious thing in the worldâ€™ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. — Bertolt Brecht
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The… — Masanobu Fukuoka
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through… — Terry Goodkind
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will… — E. M. Forster
He made a weak attempt to look innocent, but I knew better. "Should I guess how many concealed weapons you have or should I strip… — Maria V. Snyder
Love is never static, but always evolving. Love is simultaneously random and ordered, so intangible and yet a part of everything, and when we attempt… — James Van Praagh
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us. — Alan Watts
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and… — Audre Lorde
To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter HÃ¸eg
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and… — Brennan Manning
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt. — Dodie Smith
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. — Nancy Springer

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