Attempted Quotes

222 quotes by 203 authors

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted — Francis Bacon
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to… — Tom Robbins
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one knew where to… — Anne Carson
By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if… — Carl Sagan
On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce… — Neal Shusterman
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted it, his warning… — Jack London
[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dÃ©nouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dÃ©nouement constantly… — Edgar Allan Poe
Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. — C.S. Lewis
This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw… — Virginia Woolf
That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you — Keri Arthur
I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and… — Charles Bukowski
She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away. — Maggie Stiefvater
Lord Maccon believed that if his trousers were on his legs, and something else was on his torso, he was dressed. The less done after… — Gail Carriger
To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case,… — Michael Polanyi
On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as… — Benjamin Franklin
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night… — Vladimir Nabokov
I have at times tried to imagine the despair which leads to suicide, attempted to conjure up the slew and slop of darkness in which… — Julian Barnes
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going… — Timothy Leary

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