Attempted Quotes

222 quotes by 206 authors

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use… — Mark Twain
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater… — Dick Francis
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the… — Israel Nathan Herstein
The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day… — Ludwig von Mises
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it continues to depend… — Adolf Hitler
The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable… — Adolf Hitler
Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may… — Samuel Adams
The preservation of the Jew was certainly not casual. He has endured through the power of a certain ideal, based on the recognition of a… — Cecil Roth
Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much fierce argument and… — Perry Anderson
I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle… — Jim Beaver
Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it… — Hans Arp
I tell people, if you're thinking about suicide, all that stuff I've attempted and thought about it. If you think about it, life gets better.… — Tyler Perry
I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well. — David Gilmour
I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television — Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear — Solon
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no… — Richardson Wright
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove… — William Lloyd Garrison

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