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I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings. — Thomas Brodie-Sangster

His chin looked as though a farsighted person had attempted to sew two thickly cut pieces of bacon together in a dark room. — Christopher Paul Curtis

A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it. — Virgil Thomson

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. — William Hazlitt

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death. — Honore De Balzac

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. — Samuel Smiles

Nothing can be said to be impossible unless it has been attempted. Has it? — T.C. Southwell

But ultimately we attempted to find some middle ground because at the end of the day we love each other in spite of all our many and vast differences. — Melanie Shankle

Only six need be attempted. — Bertrand Russell

Also, _netdev signals that networking needs to be started before the file system mount is even attempted. — Jason Cannon

He attempted to bark the order and succeeded, albeit with more of a chihuahua result than intended. — Jeffery Russell

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do. — Rod Stewart

Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution. — Robert Herrick

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English. — Pankaj Mishra

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted. — Eliphas Levi

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental. — Akhmad Kadyrov

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. — Eugenio Montale

Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial. — Warren G. Harding

He couldn't grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands. — Kelly Moran

I was a young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy. — Nelson Mandela

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture — Alasdair MacIntyre

I tentatively attempted to make contact with the muscles in my body. They told me to leave them the fuck alone. — Richelle Mead

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. — Laura Miller

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted. — Malcolm Gladwell

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise. — Sean Connery

I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding. — Paula Poundstone

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. — Tom Petri

Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure. — Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. — Milton Friedman

Though I no longer lived with Jessie, this city itself was a constant reminder of my mother, the beatings, the molestation, and the attempted suicide. — Jessica N. Watkins

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted. — Hannah More

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine. — Emily Blunt

A photograph is usually the photographer's subconscious attempted to possess the photographed moment. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Oh . . ." I nodded faintly, my throat suddenly dry. I attempted a smile. — Penny Reid

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. — Eric Ambler

Nothing [ ... ] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. — Samuel Johnson

King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America - even though the white press attempted to do so. — Cornel West

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. — Susan Sontag

The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver. — Israel Nathan Herstein

Why are you so embarrassed?" he asked playfully. "So you passed out during an attempted blowjob. Who doesn't? — Karina Halle

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up. — Rebecca MacKinnon

They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience. — C.S. Lewis

You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch — Michael Connelly

Districts 7 and 11 as well. If my hunches are right, this would mean almost half the districts have at least attempted to rebel. Do — Suzanne Collins

When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled to dust. — Victor Hugo

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well. — David Gilmour

Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk. — John Waters

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. — Emily Post

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. — Thomas Paine

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore. — Colin Trevorrow

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted — Francis Bacon

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine. — Maria Edgeworth

If Wasp were writing field notes on herself, they'd read: plans attempted: 1000000 plans succeeded: 0 never learns. better off destroyed. — Nicole Kornher-Stace

She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away. — Maggie Stiefvater

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic. — Romare Bearden

Story = Character + Predicament + Attempted Extrication — Jonathan Gottschall

I attempted to hold onto some part of reality as my pussy wept for him. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

But we could not, for if one attempted to look into the future one would see nothing; it was like peeping into a person's earhole. — Chigozie Obioma

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way. — Mason Cooley

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen. — Bram Fischer

Those who are ill-prepared to endure the battle for survival should perhaps never have attempted living in the first place. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. — Henry Fuseli

With only adolescent introspection to light the way, each of us, hopelessly pubescent, alone and in secret, attempted to regulate — Philip Roth

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment. — George Edward Woodberry

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect. — William Eldridge Odom

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision — Mike Fitzpatrick

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide. — Pattie Mallette

Koudelka puzzled over this attempted readjustment of his point of view, then let it bounce harmlessly off his impermeable habits of thought. — Lois McMaster Bujold

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so ... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told. — P.T. Barnum

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence. — Burt Prelutsky

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. — David Foster Wallace

You know how women can be. One little attempted murder and they're on to the next guy. — Lexi Blake

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear — Solon

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver

It seems frankly remarkable that anyone anywhere ever attempted anything. — David Rakoff

Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance. — George Washington

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject. — Chuck Close

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. — C.S. Lewis

I have never attempted to hide that I have had two husbands in my life.
I have, however, neglected to mention that in between them, I had a wife. — Marie Brennan

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. — Bertrand Russell

Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness — George Eliot

That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you — Keri Arthur

Nothing like an attempted murder to feel close to someone, right?
-Puck, Iron Fey Series — Julie Kagawa

She wants to learn how to handle a gun.
Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet. — Nora Roberts

Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, except for the idea which conceived it? — Emil Cioran

Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. — Mike Harding

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television — Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John Of Fawsley

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. — John Crowe Ransom

Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read. — Roger Moorhouse

But she's a nice lass."
"Addolgar, she poisoned you."
"But she didn't kill me. That's what's important. — G.A. Aiken

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder . — Ilana Mercer

She tried to kill us, Keane."
"You can't take attempted murder personally in this business, Fowler. — Robert Kroese

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. — Quintilian

Your average person wouldn't recognize a sublime entity if it attempted to fist fuck them while waiting in line for the next Batman sequel. — Janeane Garofalo

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld