Vain Attempt Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

• I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which… — Jo Brand
• SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady… — Ambrose Bierce
• Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. — Seth Godin
• The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are. — Charles Caleb Colton
• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is… — George Arthur Buttrick
• It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in… — Jawaharlal Nehru
• Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak,… — Emma Goldman
• Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to… — Margaret Weis
• It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,… — Joseph Conrad
• I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his… — George MacDonald
• It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a… — William P. Young
• I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who Wrote These Vain Attempt Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Vain Attempt Quotes as follows:

• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Seth Godin
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Charles Caleb Colton
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by George Arthur Buttrick
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Jawaharlal Nehru
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Emma Goldman
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Margaret Weis
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Joseph Conrad
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by George MacDonald
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by William P. Young
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• 1 Vain Attempt Quote by Jo Brand