Attempted Quotes

222 quotes by 203 authors

He [Kai] blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected.… — Marissa Meyer
She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet. — Nora Roberts
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. — David Foster Wallace
In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't… — Tina Fey
How was your night?" I asked, my voice carefully neutral as I attempted to break the ice. My spying adventures still hung uncomfortably between us.… — Becca Fitzpatrick
There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and… — Cassandra Clare
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed most of… — John Steinbeck
When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message to future US… — Alex Jones
I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong.… — Jamie Lee Curtis
It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was… — Henry Rollins
When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements. — Robert Kiyosaki
Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up. — Rebecca MacKinnon
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this… — John Buford
On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out… — Stephen Cohen
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. — Albert Bushnell Hart
What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures.… — Satyajit Ray
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain. — Bill Alexander
Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions;… — Bradley A. Smith
Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure… — Samuel Johnson

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