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It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.
— George P. Shultz
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
— Charlie Trotter
The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.
— Soren Kierkegaard
My motions were mindless, each one some feeble attempt to keep from thinking about what had happened,
— Sarah J. Maas
Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.
— Giuliana Rancic
Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting.
— Demetri Martin
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
— Henry James
Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts.
— John Green
False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others.
— Tony Dungy
Congrats, you've just had your first assassination attempt.
— Benedict Jacka
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong
— Francis Crick
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
— Vincent Van Gogh
God challenges all of us to attempt things for him which we are unable to do in ourselves, so that the Glory may be his.
— Phyllis Irwin
What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.
— Joe Hyams
I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.
— Garrison Keillor
I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.
— Marilynne Robinson
A crowd is only impressed by excessive sentiments. Exaggerate, affirm, resort to repetition, and never attempt to prove anything by reasoning.
— Jon Ronson
you look you see only bitterness or despair. If all of these conditions and situations apply to you, I recommend a refreshing suicide attempt.
— Jeff VanderMeer
What if the images of people sprouting wings are inaccurate, merely an attempt by the human mind to understand what it wasn't meant to comprehend?
— M.M. Lake
To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer -
— Emily Dickinson
One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing.
— Grantland Rice
Never attempt to accelerate your progress
— Doug Hepburn
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
— Paul Harris
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.
— Ezra Taft Benson
For something made of wires, bits, and bytes, technology can elicit some fairly strong emotions in the people who attempt to use it.
— Martha Heller
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
— Charles Simmons
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
— Carlisle Floyd
It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
The entire road trip could be summed up as one giant attempt to keep from crashing the car during fits of rage and fits of hysteria.
— Kari Martindale
'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.
— Dave Sim
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
— Lee Iacocca
Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.
— Emilie Du Chatelet
How can you be ashamed of an attempt to be better?
— Tahereh Mafi
At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing
— Patrick Ness
Epithets like that are an attempt to dehumanize a group so that you won't feel as bad about killing them.
— James S.A. Corey
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
— Christopher Morley
To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.
— Richard Rorty
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
— G.K. Chesterton
I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
— W.C. Fields
If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God.
— Myles Munroe
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 is handy.
— Jo Brand
I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to.
— Ashton Kutcher
Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.
— Robert Anton Wilson
The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it
— Erich Fromm
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
— Ovid
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy.
— Selena Gomez
But on this man the look was different. Hungry and possessive, he ate me with his stare, with the blatant desire that he made no attempt to hide.
— Alessandra Torre
He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
— Ramakrishna
Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.
— Alice S. Rossi
We write or we are written upon. The whole of our lives is the clumsy attempt to wield the pen with grace.
— Vincent Louis Carrella
Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.
— Larry Kersten
If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do.
— Hill Harper
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?
— Aaron B. Powell
Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
— Alan Bersin
It is a curse to have everything go right on your first attempt.
— Robert Greene
The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.
— Michael Poeltl
[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
— Swami Vivekananda
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
— Albert Einstein
Keep a positive mind. Remember, a failed attempt doesn't make you a failure - giving up does.
— Lorii Myers
I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
— Angela Lansbury
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
— Hermann Hesse
The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.
— W. H. Auden
Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.
— Elizabeth Eulberg
All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.
— Thomas Bernhard
Like the creatures living incognito amongst the human race, so will Michael attempt to conceal from others his strange powers and abilities.
— Shannon Rieger
Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too late!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Coach's sad smile suggested that after a suicide attempt, a girl's decisions weighed less, like bodies on the moon.
— Lauren Kate
I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied.
— Kate Cary
If you should attempt to maintain that film is an art in conversation with a cultured, intelligent American, he'll just plain stop talking to you.
— Ilya Ilf
Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Backbiting is the attempt of one who is incapable of doing better himself.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him
— Kenneth Wapnick
If Al Gore loses his brazen attempt to win on the dimples, one reason will be that he finally convinced enough Republicans to fight like Democrats.
— Paul Gigot
Whatever men attempt, they seem driven to overdo. When hopes are soaring, I always repeat to myself that two and two still make four.
— Bernard Baruch
There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.
— Phillips Brooks
It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)
— Paul Tillich
The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
— Tom Peters
Change is one of the unavoidable facts of all existence. Any attempt to avoid change only results in an unnatural waste of energy.
— Michael R. Poll
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