Attempts Quotes

• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Laws
  • Result
  • Vanity

• We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.

  

  Evaristo Nugkuag
  • Development
  • Alternatives
  • Urgency

• Attempts to juggle domestic responsibilities with artistic production have often resulted in smaller bodies of work, and often works smaller in scale, than those produced by male contemporaries. Yet art history continues to privilege prodigious output and monumental scale or conception over the selective and the intimate.

  

  Whitney Chadwick
  • Production
  • Intimate
  • Scale

• All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Evil
  • Citizens
  • Attempts

• He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Government
  • Reform
  • Attempts

• Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Picture
  • Attempts
  • Wrong Track

• My attempts at a lawn. Twice have we had the ground carefully dug up, and prepared; twice it has been sown with the best English seed... at considerable expense; ...and the end of all the trouble has been that a strong nor'wester has blown away both seed and soil, leaving only the hard, un-dug ground. ...there are the croquet things, lying idle in the verandah... they are likely to remain unused for ever.

  

  Bee Dawson
  • English
  • Soil
  • Seed

• Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Confidence
  • Doubt
  • Attempts

• There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Attempts

• There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Injury
  • True Channel

• High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds.

  

  Arthur Melvin Okun
  • Tax
  • Beat
  • Attempts

• Indeed, nearly all attempts to exterminate a doctrine and its organizational expression, by force without spiritual foundation, are doomed to failure, and not seldom end with the exact opposite of the desired result.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Doctrine
  • Attempts
  • Exterminate

• The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Character
  • Childs
  • Abortionist

• In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Jesus
  • Covers
  • Midst

• When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

  

  David Shapiro
  • President
  • Events
  • Wishes

• I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Evolution
  • Diet
  • Etched

• I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • Objects
  • Representation
  • Attempts