Attempts Quotes

526 quotes by 462 authors

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly… — Hannah Arendt
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories… — Annie Besant
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party.… — Aneurin Bevan
Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights… — Andrea Bocelli
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. — Andre Breton
Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he… — Symeon the New Theologian
I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration and amnesty] to… — Jan C. Ting
If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near him and audibly count his… — Harry Vardon
People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on;… — Florence Nightingale
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to… — Nicholas Delbanco
The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a… — Bobby Jones
A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past… — Roberto Burle Marx
Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly… — Ian Stevenson
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne
Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall… — Samuel Johnson
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows… — John Updike
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he… — O. Henry
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson

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