Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man… — Stephen Leacock
All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned… — Mukesh Ambani
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation… — Terry Pratchett
To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. — John Mason Brown
Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without… — Paul Gauguin
Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three… — Dan Quayle
He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey /… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child... — Mary Roberts Rinehart
And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow… — Felix Mendelssohn
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so… — Andrew Greeley
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner… — Edward Hopper
When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square... the… — Kazimir Malevich
Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and… — William Graham Sumner
Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. — Randall Dale Adams
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself. — Charles Webster Hawthorne
All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to… — John Bertram Phillips
It's a chicken-and-egg thing. You could send cards to everyone in San Francisco, but if the merchants don't have the terminals, what's the point? What… — David Robertson
A REAL man, the kind of man a woman wants to give her life to, is one who will respect her dignity, who will honor… — Leslie Ludy
The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost… — Pascal Boyer
He who chooses to be a master never does 'just enough' to get by - nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the… — James Arthur Ray
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in… — Andrew Schneider
Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it. — Eric Rudolph
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap. — Richard Codey
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to… — Luther Burbank
Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He… — Walter Cronkite

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