Top 954 Attempts Quotes & Sayings

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

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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

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

You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies, life, and thinking, attempts to find a way for women to speak, will improve widely in Korea.

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

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

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

If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying - that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 - establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.

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

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

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

Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12, 1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made several attempts to kill himself before committing suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on fire.

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

Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges.

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

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

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

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

BDS attempts to use economic tools to boycott Israeli goods and services and punish individuals and entities supporting Israel. It attempts to use harassment and intimidation to turn Israel's supporters against the country.

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.

The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.

There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.

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

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?

All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.

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

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

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

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

I had 14 failed attempts at having kids.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

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

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

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

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

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

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

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

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

That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.

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.

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.

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

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

Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.

Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It is true that attempts at gliding had been made hundreds of years before him, and that in the nineteenth century, Cayley, Spencer, Wenham, Mouillard, and many others were reported to have made feeble attempts to glide, but their failures were so complete that nothing of value resulted.

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

Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

We have to continue to resist all attempts to change our constitution.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts

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

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

No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence also indicates that needed attempts to stabilize such societies run counter to the expectations of the populace and of interest groups. For that reason, such attempts at stabilization frequently fail.

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

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

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