What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up.
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.
People are aware of what I stand for through television. Nobody gets rich on TV but you build brand. That's what I'm attempting to do.
That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.
Giving your friends the evil eye, as you attempt to convince them that they took you away from your book, and it was awesome.
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
As a whole, investors should welcome attempts to safeguard the integrity of markets. You need very clear rules applied to markets.
The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.
I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule." Clarence Birdseye
Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.
Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
