Quotes About Attempts

After reporting on such moments, the historian Paul Johnson concludes, "Attempts to perfect Christian societies in this world, whether conducted by popes or revolutionaries, have tended to degenerate into red terrors.

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

This is not a story about your disappointment at my silence. The theme of this story is my pain and my attempts to end it.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that wretched term, were those of a man who knows he's in a cage, exposed to the jeers of all his old ambitions until he dies.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

You never run out of chances until you stop taking them.

But God, in His appointed time, will vindicate His honor and glory from the foolish attempts of sinful men who attempt to strip Him of both.

Never regret your past if you haven't yet achieved what you've been working for or dreamed about.Just be Glad enough that you lived it and those attempts and working have lead you to a much Higher and Stronger position today and many few steps ahead for what you wanted.

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Wilson agreed reluctantly to their attempts: "I don't much like to make a compromise with people who aren't reasonable. They will always believe that, by persisting in their claims, they will be able to obtain more.

Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.

In fact the only documented deaths attributable to Fukushima actually happened through panic-stricken attempts to avoid radiation.

Sinful attempts to control may come from a lust for power or from unsuccessful attempts to correct problem situations. Underneath sinful attempts to control or manipulate is the deadliest sin of all: pride. It is pride that puts self, self's interests, desires, plans, and ideas first. It is often the self-righteous pride of thinking that self knows what is best.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

The promise of blockchain technology for gun control continues to be stonewalled, just like other attempts at reining in the availability of guns throughout America.

Misfortune comes from all successful attempts at education.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.