Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than… — Michael Kenna
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side… — Laura Mennell
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by… — A.C. Grayling
It is very difficult to know exactly what good should come out of a particular situation. To attempt to manipulate circumstances so your idea of… — Neem Karoli Baba
To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task… — Rene Dubos
My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both… — Alice Glass
Your cable television is experiencing difficulties. Please do not panic. Resist the temptation to read or talk to loved ones. Do not attempt sexual relations,… — Matt Groening
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward — Thomas A. Edison
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. — Barbara Kingsolver
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our… — Robert D. Hare
Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a… — John Updike
We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has… — David Quammen
Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is… — P.J. O'Rourke
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable. — Charles Caleb Colton
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are. — Charles Caleb Colton
Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well. — Andy Rooney
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit… — Frederick William Robertson
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the… — Thomas Szasz
An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere,… — Albert Einstein
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to… — Elbert Hubbard
The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure… — Henry A. Kissinger
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience… — Kenneth Tynan

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