Attempts Quotes
526 quotes by 462 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
— Andre Breton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity.
— John Donne
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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
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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
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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
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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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