Top 434 Attempted Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

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

Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year.

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do not need citing; 2) excessive ambition, such as Athens' attempted conquest of Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, Philip II's of England via the Armada, Germany's twice-attempted rule of Europe by a self-conceived master race, Japan's bid for an empire of Asia; 3) incompetence or decadence, as in the case of the late Roman empire, the last Romanovs and the last imperial dynasty of China; and finally 4) folly or perversity.

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

The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental.

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.

I've never attempted or even tried or will ever throw anyone under the bus. That's just not me. I don't do that.

The biggest reason for me to take up Naagin 4' was that I have never attempted something like this.

Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail.

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

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

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

Saudi Arabia has historically attempted to influence politics in Beirut.

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

Rajiv Gandhi could have certainly attempted to form a Congress-led coalition government in 1990.

I'm off the diet, but not the treadmill. I speak as someone who's attempted to lose weight and get fit thrice before in my life.

Every album that I've attempted, I suppose, has been different - it's bound to be.

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

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

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television

Only six need be attempted.

Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.

I've attempted tech-free days when I turn off the phone and stare at the iPad instead.

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

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

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.

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

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

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

Believe me, what I have done in 'Company' has never been attempted before.

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.

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

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

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

If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals.

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

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

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

They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion.

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

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.

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

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

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

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

The top climbers in the world had attempted this climb and couldn't do it. That history is what makes Meru special.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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