#attempt

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#attempting #blessed #destiny #eye #flinching

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#bad #bad breath #breath #days #give

The attempt and not the deed confounds us. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#confounds #deed #us

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#attempt #behavior #exterminate #genocide #people

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#art #attempt #even #fail #great

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#attempt #been #change #decision-making #desire

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#attacked #attempted #avoid #because #defended

I've wanted to do it for years, but every attempt at it has turned into another tune. We have actually taken a different approach, we're doing a lot of sampling - we're even sampling bits of Flash! ↗

— Peter Banks

#another #approach #attempt #bits #different

The images attempt to capture scientific thought. They represent the physical manifestation of the thought process. Everything in the laboratory is a product of a stream of conscious or unconscious thought. ↗

— Peter Fraser

#capture #conscious #conscious thought #everything #images