Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired… — Emanuel Lasker
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the… — John Fante
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt. — Nathanael Greene
Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth,… — Ernest Holmes
People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be… — James A. Baldwin
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else. — Daniel Keys Moran
I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility. — Andrei Tarkovsky
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass… — Robert Browning
People who are obsessed are raw with God; they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures. Obsessed people don't… — Francis Chan
If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience… — Anne Graham Lotz
Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we… — Dee Hock
There is a world-old controversy that crops up whenever women attempt to enter a new field. Is a woman fit for that work? It would… — Unknown Author
You would think that Halloweens tomorrow because of their attempt to scare the American public. — Jim Sensenbrenner
Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock. — Giuliana Rancic
Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to… — Woodrow Wilson
Mr. Edison worked endlessly on a problem, using the method of elimination. If a person asked him if he were discouraged because so many attempts… — Thomas A. Edison
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. — H. L. Mencken
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. — D. H. Lawrence
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living… — Marya Hornbacher
A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he… — Isaac of Nineveh
Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. — David Richo
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a… — Yasmin Mogahed
Science advances by trial and error. When mistakes are made, the peer-review publication process usually roots them out. Cuccinelli's version of the scientific process would… — Scott Mandia
We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid… — Gangaji

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