Quotes About Attempt

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we don't try too much in life, if we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure. If we can make it look like we are not really responsible for our fate, for what happens to us in life, then our apparent powerlessness is more palatable.

We have to start doing this in ignorance of the details of how to do it. We have to learn how to do it in the attempt itself. It is something we are going to have to imagine.

Why, when it comes to Law, I have nothing to say" answered that personage. "for laws were never meant to be understood, and it is foolish to make the attempt.

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

Religion I have defined as "Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art".

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

The only serious attempt to manage the world differently – Communism – was so much worse in almost every conceivable way that nobody has the stomach to try again.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

Our doubts are traitors," she penned for the editorial page of her new endeavor. "And make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Barr neglected to mention that the investigation that was under way when Trump took office took place because the Russian government engaged in a systematic attempt to help Trump win the election, which Trump and his staff encouraged.

That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your pathetic attempt to seduce me again, you're falling miserably." "I don't seduce woman." Phin shoved back his chair and stood up. "They fall into my open arms." "Clumsy of them.

To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Probably is absolutely the best I can do.

Vern was alternately amused or irked by humans' reaction to his appearance. On this occasion, he experienced both emotions within a second of each other. The first guy blurted, Hail, Satan. Which was presumably a last ditch attempt to change saviours to appease the devil heading for him.

The [Republican] party's mainstream option was probably voiced by Massachusetts Congressman Henry L. Dawes, who admitted the medicine was extreme but asked whether any alternative existed: Am I to abandon the attempt to secure to the American citizen these rights, given to him by the Constitution? [Note: in reference to Enforcement Acts of 1870/71]