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They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. — Bertrand Russell

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

Despite my repeated attempts, my hands refused to reach out and wrap themselves around Brasti's throat. The — Sebastien De Castell

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

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. — Mary Augusta Ward

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low. — Geoffrey Miller

There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts. — Beck

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts. — George Sand

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide

We must carefully examine our relationship with Jesus Christ before we make any attempts to introduce him to strangers. Matthew 7:21-23 — Felix Wantang

The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies. — James Boyle

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver

The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves. — Michael Crichton

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution. — James Madison

Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land. — Moshe Dayan

When a man attempts to build something in the physical realm that has not been built in the spiritual one, he will most certainly fail. — Sunday Adelaja

PLEASE CEASE ATTEMPTS TO OVERRIDE MY SECURITY PROTOCOLS, BYRON. FOR WANT OF A BETTER DESCRIPTOR, IT TICKLES. — Amie Kaufman

Allow me to fulfill my duties without having to suffer through trivial attempts at conversation and we will get along well enough. — Elizabeth Carlton

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy! ... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. — Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

My attempts at brushing him off were three counties past the border of outright rude, but nothing fazed him. — A&E Kirk

To Be Happy, You Must Know The Pass Code of Life. And Life Gives You Many Attempts To Unlock It ... — Muhammad Imran Hasan

Ronan sometimes dreamt of Adam, too, the latter boy sullen and elegant and fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan's clumsy attempts to communicate. — Maggie Stiefvater

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful — Michael Moorcock

The history of Christian attempts to discern the signs of the times makes discouraging reading. At — Lesslie Newbigin

As soon as something seems the most obvious thing in the world,it means that we have abandoned all attempts to understanding it. — Bertolt Brecht

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice . — Diogenes

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one. — Edith Stein

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act. — Maria Montessori

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail — Ludwig Von Mises

In fact, NASA doesn't use the F-word; instead, they call failure "early attempts at success. — Mike Myers

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs. — Neale Donald Walsch

We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed. — Til Schweiger

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways. — Peter Temple

DON'T QUIT NOW
Successful graduates from the school of life thrive on failed attempts
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. — Paul Auster

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty. — Fulton J. Sheen

"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace. — Robert Jeffress

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change. — Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

The weak attempts to know you through the reports from 3rd parties. The strong dig deeper and spend time to understand your true self. — Assegid Habtewold

Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. — Rumi

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for. — Simon Sinek

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it. — Eldridge Cleaver

Some attempts at translating from one language into another one can be pretty funny if the translators don't know what they're doing. — Lori Peckham

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. — George Bernard Shaw

If all these attempts fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important you get away before your phone bill arrives. — Douglas Adams

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints. — Douglas Huebler

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. — Gilbert Murray

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. — Robin Morgan

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment. — Mason Cooley

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual. — Margaret Thatcher

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men have laboured to divide the faithful from their Master, but their attempts have been fruitless in every age. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. — Ralph Davis

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. — Natasha Trethewey

I stand alone, a woman, a girl, and a child.
Unsuccessful at my first attempts of a poem
I am miserable when I fail. — Abigail George

Cockblockers are everywhere tonight, thwarting my attempts at poor decision making. — Helena Hunting

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. — Roland Barthes

Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. — Tracy Kidder

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. — Fidel Castro

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. — Uta Barth

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution. — Jamie Lee Curtis

My unruly hair used to feel like an extension of my personality...full of life and bucking all attempts to be controlled."
Hybrid Angel (Part 1) — Nickie Williams

The world laughed at any attempts we made to exist in it without pain. — Cherie M. Hudson

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. — Vernon Howard

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music. — John Michael Talbot

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. — Anthony Liccione

We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us. — D.T. Suzuki

A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. — Rowan Atkinson

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. — Paul Karl Feyerabend

Was there any point in those attempts at reconciliation ?
Even today,I think there was. Attempts of that kind are never pointless. — Alija Izetbegovic

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess. — John C. Maxwell

In your attempts to heal this beloved one, the Holy Spirit finds opportunity to keep the promise of Jesus - and indeed, to heal. — Walter Wangerin Jr.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts. — Swami Vivekananda

Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches. — Victor Hugo

They folded clothes, dusted shelves, polished swords; except for the periodic murder attempts, they were perfect hosts. — Will Wight

Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. — Trinh T. Minh-ha

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us. — Francis Chan

The man mistook American patience and attempts at diplomacy for weakness. — Joseph Badal

"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do." — John Hickenlooper

Attempts must be made, even when there can be no hope. The alternative is despair. — Stephen R. Donaldson

Well, I see I am not designed to the finding out the Philosophers Stone, I have been so unlucky in my first attempts in chemistry. — Robert Boyle

Never again feel natural to talk to her. Any attempts to feign normal — John Green

Earth is a divine organism
it cannot be successfully manipulated
Who attempts manipulation will encounter defeat — Lao-Tzu

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile. — Brian Sutton-Smith

If you want to commit suicide why tell anyone? They'd ruin everything. — Brian Spellman

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. — David Christian

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. — Isaac Asimov

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. — H.L. Mencken

The inferior man attempts a hundred intrigues in order to save himself, but finishes only in creating a greater calamity from which he cannot run. — Wang Yangming

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. — Howard Gardner

naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range. — David Bentley Hart

Perfection doesn't exist ... only good attempts. — Charles Caleb Colton

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. — Andre Breton