Quotes of: Attempt Keyword

Perhaps her requirements were too great, Or her indulgence for human weakness too small, For her attempts to form a friendship had always Ended in disappointment.

Claudia

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

Complete Works of John Owen, 16 Volume Set

[denial] is an attempt to bring order to our lives.

Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit

The girl, indeed, is rare who does not, on getting married, attempt to remodel her husband according to her own ideas.

The Emigrant

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

The Forest for the Trees

But it was like hiding a corpse. I’ve come to the conclusion that nothing in this world can be hidden or suppressed. All such attempts are like holding an umbrella to conceal the sun.

The Guide

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Gilead

You can never know how far you can go until you have attempt a great task.

Beautiful Quotes

...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.

Cyropaedia 1-4

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

Italo Calvino

There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing what you have to say to 140 characters, and it's something that I quite enjoy attempting to do.

Richard Dawkins

I ran across an old friend of mine yesterday, and I didn’t even attempt to hit the brakes.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

The Alchemist

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

Attempting Normal

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

Attempting Normal

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.

Walter Pater

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

I Capture the Castle

As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.

Journey to a Dream

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

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"