Quotes about Attempted

Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence. Votes: 3

I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings. Votes: 3

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they? Votes: 3

How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn! Votes: 3

Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her. Votes: 3

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. Votes: 1

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. Votes: 1

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. Votes: 1

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. Votes: 1

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. Votes: 1

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. Votes: 1

I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more. Votes: 1

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor. Votes: 1

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. Votes: 1

I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain. Votes: 1

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. Votes: 1

A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor. Votes: 1

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain. Votes: 1

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it. Votes: 1

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. Votes: 1

I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion. Votes: 1

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. Votes: 1

There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy. Votes: 1

I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs. Votes: 1

I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. Votes: 1

With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life. Votes: 1

Only six need be attempted. Votes: 0

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted. Votes: 0

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental. Votes: 0

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year. Votes: 0

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted. Votes: 0

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television Votes: 0

Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution. Votes: 0

Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. Votes: 0

Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. Votes: 0

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. Votes: 0

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear Votes: 0

America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary. Votes: 0

Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way. Votes: 0

That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you Votes: 0

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. Votes: 0

Nothing [] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. Votes: 0

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before. Votes: 0

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. Votes: 0

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do. Votes: 0

When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted. Votes: 0

What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do. Votes: 0

I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding. Votes: 0

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole. Votes: 0

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Votes: 0

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death. Votes: 0

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted Votes: 0

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture Votes: 0

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. Votes: 0

After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted. Votes: 0

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment. Votes: 0

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject. Votes: 0

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine. Votes: 0

The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. Votes: 0

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision Votes: 0

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. Votes: 0

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. Votes: 0

Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder . Votes: 0

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. Votes: 0

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear. Votes: 0

Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. Votes: 0

You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience. Votes: 0

I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide. Votes: 0

However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as 'Over-The-Counter' drugs.. Votes: 0

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English. Votes: 0

Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. Votes: 0

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. Votes: 0

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. Votes: 0

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. Votes: 0

Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected. Votes: 0

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot. Votes: 0

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well. Votes: 0

Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. Votes: 0

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place. Votes: 0

The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined. Votes: 0

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions. Votes: 0

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum Votes: 0

You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted. Votes: 0

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work. Votes: 0

Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected. Votes: 0

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically. Votes: 0

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But-why did you kick me downstairs? Votes: 0

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. Votes: 0

Many school administrators are so cautious that they have erroneously erased all traces of religion. Some have run roughshod over teachers. Others have attempted to squelch all discussion of religion. Votes: 0

Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me. Votes: 0

The person who achieves spectacular failure has at least attempted something bold. Failure is a temporary condition. Success is likewise temporary. Life, itself, is temporary - so quit hesitating. Do something! Votes: 0

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant. Votes: 0

Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them. Votes: 0

The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to try, because you never look back on life and smile at what you could have attempted. Joy only brightens your countenance over those things you did attempt. Votes: 0

Close to the Edge' is the album where we first attempted to do the extra-long-form piece of music, having one song taking up the whole side of a piece of vinyl. Votes: 0

We want to see the Iranians engage, and as you know, we have attempted to bring about that engagement over the course of the last three-plus years. It has not proven effective. Votes: 0

The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being. Votes: 0

On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars. Votes: 0

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new. Votes: 0

Mrs. Campbell once attempted to smuggle her pet Pekingese through customs by tucking him inside the upper part of her cape. "Everything was going splendidly," she later remarked, "until my bosom barked." Votes: 0

Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched. Votes: 0

I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress. Votes: 0

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party. Votes: 0

Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive. Votes: 0

Perhaps my own struggle against the negativity created by these so-called critics has enabled me to develop a more resilient, peaceful, inner strength which I, in turn, have attempted to communicate to others. Votes: 0

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish. Votes: 0

The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine. Votes: 0

I did Scottish footballer of the year this year, attempted to do some comedy at that. Not the brightest people in the world. There were seven O-Levels in that room, and they were all mine. Votes: 0

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States. Votes: 0

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change. Votes: 0

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Votes: 0