#attempt

The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less. ↗

— Max Baucus

#agricultural #attempt #cuba #keep #less

For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress. ↗

— Mary Bono

#asking #attempts #authority #cease #clear

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#attempts #billion #came #doubt #either

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#attempting #best #collect #directly #drama

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#attempts #attention #even #get #later

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it. ↗

— Walter Pater

#art #attempts #beauty #been #define

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attempting #display #does #every #every man

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#all things #attempts #burden #excuse #feels

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public. ↗

— Ben E. King

#enough #even #guitar #i #i can

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#child #i #i think #keep #lot