Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down,… — Sarah Palin
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. — Maximilien Robespierre
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of… — Salman Rushdie
Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the… — Will Self
The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out… — William Shatner
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my… — Cat Stevens
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union. — J. Michael Straczynski
All sins are attempts to fill voids. — Simone Weil
Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. — Bob Woodward
As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of… — Evgeny Morozov
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and… — John B. S. Haldane
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things… — Abraham Lincoln
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes… — Nick Hornby
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique… — Wade Davis
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed… — Marquis de Sade
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it. — Margaret Atwood
You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective,… — Ted Dekker
Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people… — Deb Caletti
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. — Trinh T. Minh-ha
The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter… — Christopher Paolini
There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their… — Ben Okri

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