Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best… — Alexander Markovich Polyakov
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.… — Michael Dummett
Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed.....It is not even possible to make a… — Nils Heribert-Nilsson
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. — H. L. Mencken
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is… — Salvatore Quasimodo
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. — Walter Inglis Anderson
In view of the fourteen incidents of sabotage and infiltration perpetrated in the past month alone, Israel may have no other choice but to adopt… — Levi Eshkol
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that… — Alan Garner
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… — Robert Adams
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got… — Alfred North Whitehead
It is legitimate and necessary to ask oneself if this is not perhaps part of a new ideology of evil, perhaps more insidious and hidden,… — Pope John Paul II
A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts… — William Matthews
This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases of repeated attempts… — Faxian
One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done,… — Og Mandino
Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being… — Swami Vivekananda
So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man… — Ayn Rand
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken… — James Madison
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to… — Mark Twain
As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable. And we will… — Barack Obama
Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different… — Albert Einstein
Look, it also attempts to poison our children, divide them from their parents and the teaching of the church and basically turn them into pawns… — E.W. Jackson
Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the process to… — Stephen Batchelor
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to contemplation. ...when leaving… — Namkhai Norbu

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