Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry. — Rob Bishop
All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. — John Owen
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine… — Susan Neiman
All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the… — George Zebrowski
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'… — William Hazlitt
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes,… — Saul Bellow
Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most… — William J. Clinton
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. — Mahatma Gandhi
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to… — Al Gore
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our… — Moshe Dayan
As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets. — Mohamed El-Erian
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. — James Fenton
Because we spoke so loudly, opponents of reproductive health access demonized and smeared me and others on the public airwaves. These smears are obvious attempts… — Sandra Fluke
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism. — Mohsin Hamid
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the… — James Hillman
I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. — Thomas Huxley
I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose… — Steve Israel
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came… — Meir Kahane
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful… — Thomas a Kempis
My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later… — Lorna Luft
Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a… — Michelle Malkin
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. — Hilary Mantel
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as… — Thomas Nagel
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. — John von Neumann

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