We Attempt Quotes

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In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we must… — George Polya
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt. — Barnaby Keeney
My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to… — Gail Sheehy
A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not… — Jose Mujica
It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on… — John Henry Newman
When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. — Sigmund Freud
The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of nature. We have… — Wendell Berry
We are not going to succeed in everything we attempt in life. That's a guarantee. In fact, the more we do in life, the more… — Susan Jeffers
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. Itâ€™s not a mere speeding up, however much our… — Douglas Rushkoff
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it… — H.G. Wells
The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties… — Galileo Galilei
The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own… — Theodor Herzl
Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the… — Brennan Manning
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller. — Federica Montseny
We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks… — Charlotte Mason
What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just.… — Kate Mosse
To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt. — Scott Tinley
We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency. — Hudson Taylor

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