Some in favour of Brexit are so fixated on leaving the E.U., they keep arguing that any attempt to change it is some form of sabotage.
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.
Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.
I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or the Prophet Mohammed.
No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand
'6 Times' is an attempt to reinvestigate the social responsibility of sculpture. The body in question is a particular body, but it doesn't really matter whose it is.
I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.
I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.
we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.
I attempt to do my best and do what's right, but that doesn't mean I'm always right.
I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.
Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.
There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.
Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.
Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.
Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another."
I can't see for the life of me how an attempt to understand the universe, which I believe comes from God, can alienate us from God.
It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas".
Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it.
I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.
Shortkut... ' has a very nice, strong story. It is not one of those nonsensical comedies where characters attempt buffoonery to get laughs. It is a small film with a big heart.
The painful truth is that in its attempt to remain 'morally neutral,' Hollywood is causing us to raise a nation of cads and harlots... Thanks again, Sean Penn!
Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure.
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.
To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.
Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.
The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.
Obama's only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated.
Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.
You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.
The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt.
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
I felt that the beach portraits were all self-portraits. That moment of unease, that attempt to find a pose, it was all about me.
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt made to keep any of the inmates of the Convent in ignorance of the murder of children.
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.
I have made an honest attempt in 'Drohi.' Thanks to the support from the producer Mano Akkineni and the lessons I learnt from Mani sir, the film has come out well.
Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration.
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.
Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.
Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt.
I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.
Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you attempt to — er — 'bring me in' by force, I will have to hurt you.
Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.
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