Attempting Quotes

314 quotes by 293 authors

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. — Calvin Coolidge
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and… — Salvador Dali
You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say… — Angela Davis
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches. — Harold Evans
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people. — Louis Farrakhan
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting… — Conrad Hall
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven. — Douglas Horton
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. — Samuel Johnson
We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to… — Barbara Jordan
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. — Henry A. Kissinger
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. — Horace Mann
A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth. — Walter Martin
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. — John Stuart Mill
What I'm attempting to do is to show people that if I can spend some time with very dangerous spiders and snakes and scorpions, then… — Dominic Monaghan
I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. — John Forbes Nash
Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man… — Horatio Nelson
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or… — M. Scott Peck
Imagine it's 1981. You're an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You're also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to;… — Jerry Saltz
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason,… — George Washington

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