Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If… — Edward Abbey
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this… — John Conyers
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the… — Philip Yancey
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear… — Dick Cheney
Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because… — Thomas A. Edison
Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should… — Charles Ferguson
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very… — Sri Aurobindo
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. — Charles Simmons
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt) — Sylvia Plath
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body,… — Phillip Lopate
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. — Arthur Koestler
Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of… — Nikola Tesla
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he… — Alfred Binet
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an… — Archibald Alexander
We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game… — George Knudson
In order to win, you must play your best golf when you need it most, and play your sloppy stuff when you can afford it.… — Bobby Jones
To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more. — John C. Maxwell
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. — Joseph Sobran
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. — Ezra Taft Benson
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
On his attempt at the Edmonton Oilers empty net: I guess they respect my shot because they were all ready at the blue line. — Patrick Roy
The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of the government, for… — Arleigh Burke
Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the… — Jane Austen

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