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Quotes About Attempted

The first attempted coup in the history of the United States of America had failed.
~ Daniel Silva
Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.
~ Jo Brand
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson
Inherent rights are from God, and the tragedies of the world originate in their attempted denial.
~ Warren G. Harding
It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
~ Rose Wilder Lane
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
~ John Crowe Ransom
What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
~ Satyajit Ray
Trinity would be the largest physics experiment ever attempted up to that time.
~ Richard Rhodes
Just in case Skye finished with Birches and attempted to scrub the beach.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
Bruce possessed such a natural athleticism in everything he attempted to do. He seemed to excel in every sport he tried. Whatever he did, he was daring and cut an amazing form.
~ Linda Thompson
I'm placing you under arrest for murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and, I don't know, possibly littering.
~ Derek Landy
He needed a plan. Something audacious and brilliant. Something that had never been attempted before. Artemis was not unduly worried on that front. His brain had never let him down before.
~ Eoin Colfer
I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
~ Winston Marshall
Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read.
~ Roger Moorhouse
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.
~ Assata Shakur
Of Amory's attempted sacrifice had been born merely the full realization of his disillusion, but of Monsignor's funeral was born the romantic elf who was to enter the labyrinth with him.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Between 1947 and 1989, when America was on the one hand building up the liberal international order, it attempted regime change around the world seventy-two times, by one scholar's count, almost every time without UN approval.
~ Fareed Zakaria
They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish was in their skin.
~ Ron Hansen
and most modern and all surrealist art is nothing but attempted witchcraft, borrowing its forms from the primitive witchdoctor and its ideas from the modern theosophist." He
~ Fritz Leiber
I think if you go beyond a year - if this continues into the system in the out years, I think there is a risk and that - that we could have a negative reaction in the bond market and that will offset the good that was attempted to be done.
~ Franklin Raines
The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
~ Madeleine Stowe
Maha Kumbh' blends elements from Hindu mythology with the international espionage thriller. Nothing like it has ever been attempted on Indian television.
~ Gautam Rode
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson