Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the… — John Edward Williams
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat
But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control. — Lauren Oliver
All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. — Hermann Hesse
I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another.… — Og Mandino
The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor… — Margaret Atwood
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not… — Max Lucado
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.… — Rowan Atkinson
Angeline made a few more attempts to break away, but when it became clear she couldn't, those around us began whistling and cheering. A few… — Richelle Mead
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. — Vince Lombardi
Depression is about anger, it's about anxiety, it's about character and heredity. But it is also about something that is in its way quite unique.… — Unknown Author
Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality. — Sarah Silverman
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. — Eamon Duffy
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. — Robin Morgan
I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel… — Robert Graves
Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove… — Victor J. Stenger
The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always… — Gustave Le Bon
Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do. — Vishnudevananda Saraswati
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it… — Albert Ellis
[Great scientists] are men of bold ideas, but highly critical of their own ideas: they try to find whether their ideas are right by trying… — Karl Popper
You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me — Nicki Minaj
Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical,… — Arvind Gupta
One of the ultimate ironies of eternity is that the adversary, who is miserable precisely because he has no physical body, invites and entices us… — David A. Bednar

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