Attempt Quotes - page 48

The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,' as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
THE ARMAMENTS RACE IN EUROPE MUST BE STOPPED NOW. ... I am not in favour of going to war in order to defend the Foreign Investments of British financiers, or the protective tariffs of British industrialists. ... I am a young man. I appeal to the Youth of the Monmouth Division to consider what the world offers to our generation. WAR and POVERTY are the twin dangers which threaten our chances of a decent, happy life in the World. All over Europe youth is being recruited into the ranks of Fascism. Fascism represents the last attempt of those who control economic power to maintain their supremacy. ... I WANT TO SEE A GOVERNMENT IN THIS COUNTRY WHICH WILL SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE DESERVING MANY, AND NOT THOSE OF THE WEALTHY FEW. View quote
Michael Foot
And I'd like to say this to [Sir James Goldsmith]....... who has got nothing to be smug about, and I would like to say that 1,500 votes is a derisory total. We have shown tonight that the Referendum Party is dead in the water, and Sir James can get off back to Mexico knowing your attempt to buy the British political system has failed. View quote
David Mellor
Judge: What do you suppose I am on the Bench for, Mr. Smith? Smith: It is not for me, Your Honour, to attempt to fathom the inscrutable workings of Providence. View quote
F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. View quote
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
War is fought in this fog of falsehood, a great deal of it undiscovered and accepted as truth. The fog arises from fear and is fed by panic. Any attempt to doubt or deny even the most fantastic story has to be condemned at once as unpatriotic, if not traitorous. This allows a free field for the rapid spread of lies. View quote
Arthur Ponsonby
With the old ideal of liberty there was a great and urgent passion for freedom of opinion and freedom of speech. In the present day we cared very much less for freedom of opinion as an element in our national life than we did in those days. But we ought always to be on our guard against giving the smallest encouragement to any attempt of any kind of any dominant party to put down the free expression of anything which was not criminal. View quote
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything). View quote
Julie Burchill
The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin, even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they're manifestations of the same thing...They spring from the same source. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. It's our attempt as humans to build an understanding of the universe, the world around us. It's our attempt to influence things, the universe internal to ourselves and external to us. View quote
Mae Jemison
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience. (Rachel Cusk)
I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful. View quote
Helen Mirren
I would advise you therefore not to attempt unchaining the Tyger, but to burn this Piece before it is seen by any other Person. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it. View quote
Derek Jeter
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us. View quote
Alan Watts
Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons, and their object is the same-to prevent trade. The difference between the two is that blockading squadrons are a means whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people from trading. What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. View quote
Henry George
In developped countries, successive governments have always acted like firemen putting out fires instead of architects designing new buildings. The tax loopholes they have created are responses to emotions provoked by a given event, or an attempt to ease social tension caused by taxpayer exasperation (and/or reflecting their power). Any rational global management policy must satisfy two imperatives: simplicity; and stability. View quote
Éric Pichet
The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity. View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
Now let acknowledge the fact that to explain the meaning of painting is difficult. And when the form and the content are really new, there is not even a vocabulary with which to attempt to explain the new work. This is a problem for critics and a difficult problem. I think it is about time for the critics to face this problem, as well as the fact that there are a few new forms and ideas in modern painting, that these have validity, that they are here to stay and will be developed whether opposed or not... They should investigate the serious ideas underlying the painting which they malign. View quote
Adolph Gottlieb
The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him. (Chuck Klosterman)
You can have a good deal of both if you only keep them separate. The worry comes from the attempt at mixture. View quote
William Osler
What is Mysticism? Is it not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? View quote
Florence Nightingale
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. View quote
David Hume
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos. View quote
Kenneth Tynan