Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who… — William Dobell
When things go bad, it's easy to point fingers. People who attempt to switch the blame are afraid to fail. We've all been afraid to… — John Elway
At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns… — Unknown Author
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and… — George H. Smith
Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort — Aristotle
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in… — B. C. Forbes
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. — Barnaby Keeney
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard
The sense that the meaning of the universe had evaporated was what seemed to escape those who welcomed Darwin as a benefactor of mankind. Nietzsche… — R. J. Hollingdale
There were also the razor marks on her wrists and forearms, half a dozen per arm, not very deep, not very convincing really, just a… — Geoff Nicholson
A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance. — Roger McDonald
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted… — Paul Feyerabend
Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. [An infinitely old universe, always evolving may… — Hannes Alfven
The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures… — Robert Boyle
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of… — Unknown Author
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker
The most constructive solutions are those which take into consideration the views of all persons involved and are acceptable to all. Such outcomes are the… — Unknown Author
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than… — Ezra Taft Benson
Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of the world, to… — Peter Singer
Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to… — James Bovard
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm… — William Rawle
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress… — Arianna Huffington

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