Attempt Quotes
1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors
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Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and…
— Julie Burchill
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Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till…
— Kirk Cameron
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
— Eddie Cantor
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Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
— William Carey
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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how…
— Caleb Carr
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There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we…
— Benjamin Carson
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There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
— Jimmy Carter
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Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt…
— Nick Cave
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences…
— Noam Chomsky
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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object…
— Tadao Ando
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If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
— Kofi Annan
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Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in…
— William J. Clinton
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We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that…
— Janet Reno
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The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is…
— Paul Kurtz
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It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole…
— Unknown Author
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It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.
— Unknown Author
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when…
— Theodore Beale
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The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to…
— Immanuel Kant
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Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track…
— Roger Bannister
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for…
— Thomas Paine
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