Attempts Quote by Gilbert Newton Lewis

I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.

— Lesley Manville

“At the lower end of the social scale, as well as among the gentry, enterprise and social mobility were part of the pattern in…

— Thomas Sowell

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and…

— Laurence Housman

“The desire to ascend in the social scale does not make itself felt until the intellect awakens. Up to the tenth, and often up…

— Stefan Zweig

I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think…

— Steve Forbes

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…

— Bayard Taylor

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto…

— Barry Unsworth

Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.

— Marvin Sapp

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I…

— Vincent Van Gogh

How dare you ignore me after I've made 0 attempts at talking to you.

— Ramandeep Singh

“Some attempts are still making, but they are inconsiderable in comparison of what might be done if the whole body of Christians entered heartily…

— William Carey

Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about…

— Michael Dummett