Quotes about Attempts

Attempts to secure an equal outcome always require unequal treatment of individuals. Votes: 3

Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative. Votes: 3

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever. Votes: 3

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking. Votes: 3

Let's start anew. Life is goals - Purpose-Attempts - Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it's actually simple. Votes: 3

...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. Votes: 3

Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done. Votes: 3

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love. Votes: 3

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance. Votes: 3

Attempts by some teachers to adjust school curricula to incorporate programs that children watch on television suggest a new means of 'leading' children by running after them as quickly as possible. Votes: 3

Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law. Votes: 3

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in! Votes: 3

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed. Votes: 3

All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. Votes: 3

It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend this more perfect Species of Knowledge beyond these Bounds are mere Sophistry and Illusion. Votes: 3

Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. Votes: 3

Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a "˜dream' is going crazy. Votes: 3

All sins are attempts to fill voids. Votes: 1

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. Votes: 1

Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. Votes: 1

No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. Votes: 1

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. Votes: 1

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. Votes: 1

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution. Votes: 1

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government. Votes: 1

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Votes: 1

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking. Votes: 1

Being a leader for me is about having the courage to speak the truth, and live the truth, despite attempts to silence our thoughts, feelings, and past experiences. Votes: 1

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. Votes: 1

Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units. Votes: 1

Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself. Votes: 1

Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected. Votes: 1

Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. Votes: 1

General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures. Votes: 1

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people. Votes: 1

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. Votes: 1

The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest. Votes: 1

Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats. Votes: 1

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. Votes: 1

Parents are the biggest culprit. In a bid to make their child score high marks, they are willing to indulge in practices that are unethical, like buying projects. They do not realise that such attempts will not make their child brighter or think over ideas. Votes: 1

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets. Votes: 1

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care. Votes: 1

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement. Votes: 1

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts. Votes: 0

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts. Votes: 0

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail. Votes: 0

Our vices are attempts to combine self-medication and enjoyment. Votes: 0

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive Votes: 0

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts Votes: 0

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better. Votes: 0

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible. Votes: 0

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Votes: 0

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges. Votes: 0

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars ... Votes: 0

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. Votes: 0

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. Votes: 0

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless. Votes: 0

A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution. Votes: 0

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. Votes: 0

Blatant attempts to attack a constitutionally guaranteed right and a law-abiding industry. Votes: 0

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. Votes: 0

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. Votes: 0

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. Votes: 0

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. Votes: 0

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little. Votes: 0

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts. Votes: 0

Both theism and evolutionary naturalism are attempts to understand ourselves from the outside Votes: 0

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts Votes: 0

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal. Votes: 0

The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions. Votes: 0

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. Votes: 0

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins. Votes: 0

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. Votes: 0

Anyone who attempts anything original in the world must expect a bit of ridicule. Votes: 0

In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us. Votes: 0

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything. Votes: 0

You succeeded at your attempts to make me Need you desperately to vindicate me Votes: 0

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. Votes: 0

Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost. Votes: 0

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel. Votes: 0

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them. Votes: 0

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition. Votes: 0

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain. Votes: 0

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual. Votes: 0

Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful Votes: 0

A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him. Votes: 0

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force. Votes: 0

The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world. Votes: 0

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak. Votes: 0

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. Votes: 0

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation. Votes: 0

Usually one gets a heavier cross when one attempts to get rid of an old one. Votes: 0

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words. Votes: 0

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism. Votes: 0

I will persist until I succeed. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. Votes: 0

In his own country, [Osho] suddenly seemed safe from the international, political attempts to harass him. Votes: 0

Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. Votes: 0

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. Votes: 0

True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. Votes: 0

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. Votes: 0

Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards. Votes: 0

The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind. Votes: 0

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time. Votes: 0

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease. Votes: 0

We find the light only after total defeat of our attempts to deceive and outwit it. Votes: 0

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Votes: 0

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation. Votes: 0

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Votes: 0

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth. Votes: 0

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it. Votes: 0

By all means, avoid words"”threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! Votes: 0

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. Votes: 0

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. Votes: 0

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. Votes: 0

That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. Votes: 0

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. Votes: 0

The sacred-walk by child takes place with many endured attempts to stand on his or her feet. Votes: 0

We havent done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the 90s, but they failed. Votes: 0

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip. Votes: 0

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil. Votes: 0

Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed. Votes: 0

"As Colorado attempts to build its brand as a healthy state, marijuana "dilutes what you're trying to do." Votes: 0

We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed. Votes: 0

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. Votes: 0

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch. Votes: 0

There is nothing more difficult for me to correct than my intentions, for it continually attempts to change. Votes: 0

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. Votes: 0

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. Votes: 0

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. Votes: 0

Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. Votes: 0

In the process of trial and error, Our failed attempts are meant to destroy arrogance and provoke humility Votes: 0

Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course. Votes: 0

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. Votes: 0

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth. Votes: 0

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies. Votes: 0

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. Votes: 0

Greatness is not born from one success. Greatness is born from persevering through the countless failed attempts that preceded. Votes: 0

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. Votes: 0

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Votes: 0

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment. Votes: 0

Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for. Votes: 0

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. Votes: 0

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. Votes: 0

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. Votes: 0

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it. Votes: 0

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way. Votes: 0

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control. Votes: 0

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it. Votes: 0

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked. Votes: 0

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. Votes: 0

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide. Votes: 0

They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts. Votes: 0

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either. Votes: 0

All attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to human life, but foredoomed to failure from the engineering standpoint. Votes: 0

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. Votes: 0

Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals. Votes: 0

The difficulty with humanity's previous attempts at reinventing itself is that we've always started with behaviors rather than with beliefs. Votes: 0

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity. Votes: 0

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less. Votes: 0

We must carefully examine our relationship with Jesus Christ before we make any attempts to introduce him to strangers. Matthew 7:21-23 Votes: 0

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is. Votes: 0

All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail Votes: 0

As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets. Votes: 0

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be. Votes: 0

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. Votes: 0

But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers. Votes: 0

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts. Votes: 0

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. Votes: 0

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it. Votes: 0

Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA. Votes: 0

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere. Votes: 0

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. Votes: 0

The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right. Votes: 0

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. Votes: 0

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. Votes: 0

I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust. Votes: 0

Once you've read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe. Votes: 0

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world. Votes: 0

I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms. Votes: 0

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. Votes: 0

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it. Votes: 0

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy , for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning , poverty forces us to practice . Votes: 0

...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic. Votes: 0

It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. Votes: 0

I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides. Votes: 0

The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. Votes: 0

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions. Votes: 0

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. Votes: 0

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. Votes: 0

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do. Votes: 0

All attempts to appease the Nazis between 1934 and 1939 through various agreements and pacts were morally unacceptable and politically senseless, harmful and dangerous. Votes: 0

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Votes: 0

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. Votes: 0

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. Votes: 0

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it. Votes: 0

Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway. Votes: 0

The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints. Votes: 0

The person who constantly studies without doing spiritual practice is like the fool who attempts to live in the blueprint of a house. Votes: 0

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar. Votes: 0

Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves. Votes: 0

Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. Votes: 0

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable. Votes: 0

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. Votes: 0

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. Votes: 0

If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low. Votes: 0

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work. Votes: 0

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. Votes: 0

Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty. Votes: 0

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal. Votes: 0

I was born in 1970 and I got to see a little bit of [Richard] Nixon's attempts at redefining himself. I saw [Gerald] Ford. Votes: 0

Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion. Votes: 0

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis. Votes: 0

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means. Votes: 0

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture. Votes: 0

"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. Votes: 0

There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace. Votes: 0

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. Votes: 0

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Christianity finds all its doctrines stated in the Bible, and Christianity denies no part, nor attempts to add anything to the Word of God. Votes: 0

The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped. Votes: 0

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music. Votes: 0

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms. Votes: 0

Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use. Votes: 0

Since it is through movement that the will realises itself, we should assist a child in his attempts to put his will into act. Votes: 0

In your attempts to heal this beloved one, the Holy Spirit finds opportunity to keep the promise of Jesus - and indeed, to heal. Votes: 0

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book. Votes: 0

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves. Votes: 0

Every attempt we make is imperfect; yet each one of those imperfect attempts is an occasion for a delight unlike anything else on earth. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation. Votes: 0

Perhaps her requirements were too great,Or her indulgence for human weakness too small,For her attempts to form a friendship had alwaysEnded in disappointment. Votes: 0

Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality. Votes: 0

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Science attempts to figure out laws and then uses it later. While the work of art reflects the cosmic order without asking for an explanation Votes: 0

Earlier attempts to show that simpler theories always have higher prior probabilities have failed, but there is a restricted circumstance in which the claim is right. Votes: 0

I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave. Votes: 0

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance. Votes: 0

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy. Votes: 0

The man who attempts Christianity without the church shoots himself in the foot, shoots his children in the leg, and shoots his grandchildren in the heart. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark. Votes: 0

We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail... Votes: 0

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since. Votes: 0

High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds. Votes: 0

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. Votes: 0

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said. Votes: 0

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions. Votes: 0

Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle. Votes: 0

The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. Votes: 0

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect. Votes: 0

I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind. Votes: 0

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft. Votes: 0

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another. Votes: 0

Majority of excuses are deliberate attempts to keep success far away. Eventually, the success goes away because that is the command "excuses" gave out; "pack and go"! Votes: 0

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. Votes: 0

Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts. Votes: 0

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this. Votes: 0

What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve. Votes: 0

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices. Votes: 0

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming. Votes: 0

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more than she performs. Votes: 0

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones. Votes: 0

The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early; they don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts. Votes: 0

Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness. Votes: 0

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. Votes: 0

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection. Votes: 0

It's going to be okay. Words that mean nothing. really, just sounds intoned into vastness and darkness, little scrabbling attempts to latch on to something when we're falling. Votes: 0

Your company is probably going to get hacked. The velocity and complexity of hacking attempts has skyrocketed, with companies routinely facing millions of knocks on the vault door. Votes: 0

I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place. Votes: 0

Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights. Votes: 0

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken. Votes: 0

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. Votes: 0

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years. Votes: 0

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. Votes: 0

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self. Votes: 0

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals Votes: 0

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. Votes: 0

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Votes: 0

You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake. Votes: 0

With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as they make elaborate attempts to defend Plato. Votes: 0

As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts. Votes: 0

It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage. Votes: 0

There seems to be a sense of balance or equilibrium that nature attempts to achieve with the usage of cycles, leading us to the concept of self-organization and spontaneous order. Votes: 0

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. Votes: 0

Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.‎ Votes: 0

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement. Votes: 0

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists... Votes: 0

[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output. Votes: 0

Our attempts to trust others will often be frustrated, but that's because God never wanted us to trust others. He wanted us to love others but to trust him alone. Votes: 0

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at. Votes: 0

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. Votes: 0

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge. Votes: 0

Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul. Votes: 0

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses. Votes: 0

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve. Votes: 0

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule. Clarence Birdseye Votes: 0

Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day. Votes: 0

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting. Votes: 0

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. Votes: 0

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law. Votes: 0

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger. Votes: 0

I will do as much as I can, says one. Any fool can do that. He that believes in Christ does what he cannot do, attempts the impossible, and performs it. Votes: 0

Can the "word" be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind. Votes: 0

I am proud that my humble attempts to predict Tuesday's prices on Monday are an indispensable component of our society. By buying low and selling high, I create harmony and freedom. Votes: 0

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today Votes: 0

Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300km range ballistic missiles, probably the No Dong 300km range anti-ship cruise missiles and other prohibited military equipment. Votes: 0

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. Votes: 0

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold. Votes: 0

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today. Votes: 0

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down. Votes: 0

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot. Votes: 0

What you see to be difficult now, is likely to be the easiest thing ever later when you deliberately get your willpower trained over it by repeated attempts! Don't give up! Votes: 0

We are all pilgrims on an elusive and endless road... Despite our attempts to build lives on stone foundations, our spirits continuously flow. Endless streams of consciousness ripple through our minds. Votes: 0

Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable. Votes: 0

Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe. Votes: 0

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. Votes: 0

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them. Votes: 0

Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms. Votes: 0

Iago is the dominant trance state of our planet. It influences our relationships, our sexuality, our parenting, and our attempts to relax. It permeates corporate business, international politics, and our economic system. Votes: 0

Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed. Votes: 0

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff. Votes: 0

One inconvenience... may attend bold and arduous attempts: frequent failure may discourage. This evil, however, is not more pernicious than the slow proficiency which is the natural consequence of too easy tasks. Votes: 0

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. Votes: 0

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed. Votes: 0

There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder. Votes: 0

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world. Votes: 0

I understand the protests, but not the shooting and the attempts to bring down the state. We cannot allow hatred to control our lives. We must remain unified to defeat this evil. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller. Votes: 0

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. Votes: 0

Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it. Votes: 0

Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future. Votes: 0

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'. Votes: 0

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. Votes: 0

You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power. Votes: 0

[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed. Votes: 0

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible. Votes: 0

I think there's a danger here. Back in the mists of time is another story, the story of the Tower of Babel. If one attempts to get to heaven and grab the holy ... Votes: 0

Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience. Votes: 0

When the music note grows tired we will land on the wings of a guardian - One already accustomed to my attempts to fly One aware of my weakness for a beautiful try Votes: 0

In most cases, energy is lost in little games of manipulation, in little struggles of will, in the attempts to possess others, to wrap them up, to delude them, to shine them on. Votes: 0

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction. Votes: 0

The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them Votes: 0

...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of democratic political institutions, and self-defeating in their purpose. Votes: 0

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence. Votes: 0

The relentless attempts to be thin take you further and further away from what could actually end your suffering: getting back in touch with who you really are. Your true nature. Your essence. Votes: 0

Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result... Votes: 0

I was thinking how complicated life is and how there are no simple roads or paths. We are a fabric of mistakes and hurts; a family tree of fumbled attempts, successes and failures. Votes: 0

The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself. Votes: 0

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt. Votes: 0

The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth. Votes: 0

Her endless, futile attempts to make her feelings known fell on stony ground. Slowly she retreated into the darkness where her dreams became reality and reality faded into the deep recesses of her soul.... Votes: 0

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation. Votes: 0

The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales. Votes: 0

Otherwise, their only engagement I'm going to have with [Donald Trump] is fighting back against their attempts to undo Dodd-Frank, their attempts to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and all of those things. Votes: 0

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else. Votes: 0

The permanence of ink encourages one to "go for it," to try to put the line right where it should be... continued attempts to place lines accurately build the eye-hand coordination necessary for sketching. Votes: 0

Most teenage suicide attempts are cries for help; the teens survive, succeeding in bringing them the wanted attention. Mine was not a cry for help. I wanted to end my life and my misery. Votes: 0

There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears. Votes: 0

In the snobbery of science, each branch attempts to rise in the social scale by imitating the methods of the next higher science and by ignoring the methods and phenomena of the sciences beneath. Votes: 0

...although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence. Votes: 0

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive. Votes: 0

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art. Votes: 0

Many seducers clutter the simple message of the gospel with legalistic additions, with convoluted attempts to legitimize moral compromise, and with psychological theories that turn churches into relational support groups instead of houses of worship. Votes: 0

My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence. Votes: 0

I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help. Votes: 0

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain. Votes: 0

If one attempts to achieve deity or to have the holy, he is thrown back; he is refused. His language is taken from him. He can no longer even communicate. That's the Tower of Babel. Votes: 0

A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes. Votes: 0

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design. Votes: 0

Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation. Votes: 0

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts. 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

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes. Votes: 0

On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film. Votes: 0

I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or the bid for designer children. But there are implications for society at large. Votes: 0

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. Votes: 0

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation. Votes: 0