Attempted Quotes

222 quotes by 206 authors

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect. — William Eldridge Odom
My long-time view about Christianity is that it represents an amalgam of two seemingly immiscible parts-the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul. Thomas… — Carl Sagan
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. — Eric Ambler
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. — Tom Petri
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know… — Radclyffe Hall
Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those… — Joseph Henry
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. — Milton Friedman
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive… — Georg Simmel
The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the… — Barry White
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past generation. There was… — Cheikh Anta Diop
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved.Â More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit… — Charles Colson
Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still… — Andrew Sullivan
It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted. — Eliphas Levi
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey… — Laura Miller
Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate… — Patrick MacGill
Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard… — Hilaire Belloc
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of… — Herman Kahn
I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical… — Philippe Starck
As disciples of Christ, we need to feel genuine charity for one another. As we do, new light will come into our own lives. This… — M. Russell Ballard
King of the animals-- as thou hast described him-- I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest--because thou doest only help… — Leonardo da Vinci

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