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And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self (Attempt Quotes)
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt (Attempt Quotes)
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified (Attempt Quotes)
For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in (Attempt Quotes)
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that has forgotten how to think historically in the first place (Attempt Quotes)
Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself (Attempt Quotes)
We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement (Attempt Quotes)
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently (Attempt Quotes)
Suicide is a desperate attempt to get out of what seems to be an intolerable situation. It appears to be a way of escape from the pain of living (Attempt Quotes)
No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free (Attempt Quotes)
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples (Attempt Quotes)
My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is (Attempt Quotes)
Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery (Attempt Quotes)
You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke (Attempt Quotes)
I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem (Attempt Quotes)
All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it (Attempt Quotes)
Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love (Attempt Quotes)
We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness (Attempt Quotes)
It is unreasonable... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life (Attempt Quotes)
What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude (Attempt Quotes)
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit (Attempt Quotes)
There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me (Attempt Quotes)
It was the man’s dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important (Attempt Quotes)
This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it (Attempt Quotes)
Get the facts. Let’s not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner (Attempt Quotes)
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don’t attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world (Attempt Quotes)
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?... No other human institution comes close (Attempt Quotes)
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain, often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse. As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace (Attempt Quotes)
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe (Attempt Quotes)
I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn’t make them stick. We couldn’t find a way to pass them on to another generation, really (Attempt Quotes)