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1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

When love first happens, the individuals are giving each other energy unconsciously and both people feel buoyant and elated. That's the incredible high we call… — James Redfield
That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a… — Nick Hornby
One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are… — Sigmund Freud
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two… — Douglas Adams
It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there… — Terry Pratchett
How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or… — Ian Mcewan
And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. — Mitch Albom
…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. — Jeanette Winterson
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot,… — Immanuel Kant
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of… — Samuel Johnson
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers. — Henry David Thoreau
It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is… — Alison Croggon
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his… — George MacDonald
[S]omething inside us, the feeling of resentment, the feeling that wants to get one's own back, must be simply killed. I do not mean that… — C.S. Lewis
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt… — Jane Austen
Atheism, true 'existential' atheism burning with hatred of a seemingly unjust or unmerciful God, is a spiritual state; it is a real attempt to grapple… — Seraphim Rose
The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception. — Edgar Allan Poe
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by… — Vaclav Havel
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit… — Anthony Burgess
-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt. — Lloyd Alexander
Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent. — Fumiko Enchi
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility… — Ambrose Bierce
It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and… — Pope Benedict XVI
With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them. — Galileo Galilei

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