If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
Adolf Hitler: [in a furious tirade upon hearing of Himmler's attempt to surrender] Has he gone crazy?
Sid Phillips: No-one has ever attempted a double bypass brain transplant before.
String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.
I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
If you are sad don't try to influence an environment but if you are happy attempt everyone you can reach.
President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame.
There is no such thing as colossal failure. There is only colossal courage to attempt the impossible again and again until it becomes possible.
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
However, Hardy's relationship with nature is a dialectical one. While he indicates that he recognizes how human perception shapes nature, he nevertheless accepts nature as possessed of its own agency, as working through its cycle regardless of human ...
