Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a… — Edward Witten
Despite what I had acchieved, I don't for a moment think I am any braver or better than anyone else. This is how I attempt to… — Roz Savage
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes… — J F C Fuller
Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not… — Walter Wink
We believe that every relationship is unique unto itself, and thus even an attempt to think in types and forms is not going to express… — Dossie Easton
Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter. — Thomas Sydenham
In my own recent String Trio I attempt to superimpose two quite different sets of formal strategies, both of which, ultimately, refer back to historical… — Brian Ferneyhough
To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut . . to escape from the more difficult and… — J. H. Oldham
The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity… — Pentti Linkola
The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in… — A.S.A. Harrison
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent… — W. E. B. Du Bois
A film in which the speech and sound effects are perfectly synchronized and coincide with their visual image on the screen is absolutely contrary to… — Unknown Author
It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the… — Marta Andreasen
If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it… — Mancur Olson
A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this… — Medard Boss
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write — Dani Shapiro
I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a… — Jan Morris
We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and… — Zhou Yongkang
From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. — Robert A. Heinlein
There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they… — Gichin Funakoshi
Those who attempt nothing themselves think every thing easily performed, and consider the unsuccessful always as criminal. — Samuel Johnson
If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to… — Steve Pavlina
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe… — Robert Nozick

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