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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
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
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
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
I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding.
— Paula Poundstone
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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
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
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
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
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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
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