Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent… — George Carlin
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to… — Orson Scott Card
Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the… — Pope John Paul II
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would rather not know… — James A. Baldwin
Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I… — Donald Miller
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. — Paul Feyerabend
Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has changed their lives.… — Kevin Hearne
Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone… — R. D. Laing
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in… — Annie Dillard
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not… — Jimmy Buffett
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves. — Benjamin Constant
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea that… — John Green
A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise, rather… — Karl Popper
Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable… — Mark Levin
There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. — Terry Pratchett
Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. — Sherry Argov
All [Sadie’s] previous attempts [of making a shabti (an Egyptian avatar of one’s self)] had exploded or gone haywire, terrorizing Khufu and the initiates. Last… — Rick Riordan
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring… — John Green
The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it. — Bernard Beckett
Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her… — Richelle Mead
Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty. — Fulton J. Sheen
Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. — Unknown Author
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in… — David Graeber
It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something… — Lauren Oliver

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