Quotes of: Attempting Keyword

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

Irvine Welsh

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Albert Einstein

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Arthur Machen

You are one of those million attempts by God to change the World. Don't waste it.

Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Albert Bushnell Hart

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

William Cobbett

[asked if his suicide attempt was a cry for help] No. I told no one. You only cry for help if you believe that there's help to cry for.

Wentworth Miller

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

William Vickrey

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Joseph Stiglitz

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Sufjan Stevens

I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.

Anita Hill

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

James Buchanan

He found solace in what he wrote. It was an attempt to discover who he was at the moment.

A Constant Suicide

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.

The Exiled Queen

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

The Fireman's Fair

A brick could be slid on a wood floor, like a rolling bowling ball, in an attempt to fill the seconds between swallows of beer. 

Blanket

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

Bound to Shadows

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now.

The Judas Syndrome

The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt dressing up to play it!

Shaping the dream

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

Balthus

God is omnipresent, yet the attempts to provide him a transit office space are made good in a temple

Priyavrat Thareja- The Temple of TQM, OmniScience, Vol 2, No 2 (2012)