Quotes of: Attempting Keyword

Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It will always have a change of name once it’s attempted!

Daily Drive 365

Just give me a second. Attempting to give a fuck...Attempting harder to give a fuck...Sorry, there was an error; fuck not given.

Feral Sins

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

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

The Pursuit Of Simplicity

Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

Paul Di Filippo

For all that is ours, we must make conscious attempts to look after and for all that is not ours, we must make conscious attempts to stay aloof.

Ram Mohan

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

Critique of Pure Reason

If you want to keep your dignity intact, stay away from tequila.

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood

Ragging at its most harmless is embarrassing and silly, but at its worst, it attempts to prevent individual students from independent thinking, attempts, in fact, to eradicate freewill

The Female Ward

I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell stories in a very new and entertaining way.

Ben Mezrich

Don't let the bonds of fear and doubt keep you from attempting the impossible. Each attempt will loosen the chains and you'll eventually break free, thus finding the 'impossible' was actually possible all along.

J.E.B. Spredemann

To take such a complex creature, on who was meant for God and is destroyed by sin, and attempt to understand how the development of that creature can be affected by hideous trauma is to attempt the impossible.

Counseling Survivors of Sexual Abuse

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Celine: If there's any kind of magic in this world... it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know it's almost impossible to succeed... but who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt.

Before Sunrise

To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep a...

Adam Smith

The wise man looks ahead. The fool attempts to fool himself and won't face facts. Proverbs 14:8

Biblical

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process

The whole idea of government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be te...

Richard Branson

Too much possibility is the attempt by the person to overvalue the powers of the symbolic self. It reflects the attempt to exaggerate one half of the human dualism at the expense of the other. In this sense, what we call schizophrenia is an attempt b...

The Denial of Death