Quotes with attempts

Quotes 21 till 28 of 28.

  • Abraham Lincoln Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Percy Wynham Lewis Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
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  • Eric Gill Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.
    Eric Gill
    English sculptor and typeface designer (1882 - 1940)
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  • James Fenton The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
    James Fenton
    English poet, journalist and literary (1949 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Boris Johnson The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Andre Breton No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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