Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts… — Rene Dubos
... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in… — June Jordan
Each of these lines attempts to serve a portion of our population for which we extend our sympathy and encouragement. But nevertheless, it is only… — Nikki Haley
You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland,… — Peter Hain
Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held… — Bob Woodward
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. — George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the… — Witold Walczak
There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts… — Simon Hoggart
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually… — Donald Knuth
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis
For starters, let's dispense with the cheap jokes about cannibalism. That means cracks about giving an arm and a leg - sorry - for a… — Mitchell Zuckoff
It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at… — Richard Donner
Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more… — Charles Caleb Colton
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes… — Thomas a Kempis
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite… — Rabindranath Tagore
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first… — Charles de Lint
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors,… — Samuel Johnson
He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is… — Joshua Reynolds
The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between… — Arthur Davison Ficke
Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by… — Maria Cantwell
Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise… — Jim Jordan
Religion is to be used as a stepping stone to God but it must never be used as a tower to hold one aloft from… — Peace Pilgrim
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was… — Jonathan Franzen
The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but… — Paul Dourish

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