Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress… — Heinrich Himmler
On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda… — Edward Teller
A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's… — Satoshi Kanazawa
Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the… — Brennan Manning
But, sir, the great cause of complaint now is the slavery question, and the questions growing out of it. If there is any other cause… — John Brown Baldwin
Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration. — Chinmayananda Saraswati
I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as… — Albert Einstein
The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as… — Richard Lewontin
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,… — Charles Caleb Colton
NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He… — Benjamin Tucker
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words. — Niels Bohr
People must not attempt to impose their own 'truth' on others. The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a… — Pope John Paul II
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life. — Ramakrishna
Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. — Ayn Rand
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world. — Richard Rorty
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We… — J C Ryle
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of… — Rudolf Virchow
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if… — Auguste Comte
Most of our businesses do succeed, but if something completely fails, then as long as we bow out gracefully and pay off all our debts,… — Richard Branson
It appears to me that it [sin] is simply an attempt to penetrate into another and higher sphere in a forbidden manner. You can understand… — Arthur Machen
Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. — Michael Haneke
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to… — Queen Victoria
This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that… — Unknown Author
I shall not attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description (of pornography), and perhaps I… — Potter Stewart

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