#attempt

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#because #cannot #emotion #even #find

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. ↗

— Scott Nearing

#armed #attempt #group #impose #upon

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. ↗

— Harry Oppenheimer

#apartheid #attempt #black #both #doomed

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#i #i can #rather #something #sure

It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. ↗

— Tom Petri

#cover-up #gets #most #original #people

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#different #four #gay #i #i wish

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#any #appointment #attempting #direct #god

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. ↗

— Fritz Todt

#accused #any #attempted #buildings #cultural

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #attempts #because #birth #break

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. ↗

— Quintilian

#changes #effect #great #great changes #herself