Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous. — Vladimir Putin
Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7… — Bayard Taylor
Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his… — P.J. O'Rourke
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey
Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals. — Marvin Sapp
Paradoxically, resource-rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources. One reason for this is that large resource endowments provide… — Peter Singer
During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan… — Stephen Kinzer
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing,… — Ken Goldberg
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable… — Malcolm Gladwell
What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts… — John Gresham Machen
The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change… — Buzz Aldrin
In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by… — Gilbert Newton Lewis
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. — Robert K. Greenleaf
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say… — Hannes Alfven
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work. — Bennie Thompson
That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political… — Mario Monti
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally… — Walter Kohn
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. — Albert Bushnell Hart
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless. — Allen Klein
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish… — William Graham Sumner
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater… — Giraldus Cambrensis
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. — Gilbert Murray
I understand the protests, but not the shooting and the attempts to bring down the state. We cannot allow hatred to control our lives. We… — Boris Trajkovski
Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to… — Gary Bauer
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death… — Zygmunt Bauman

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