#attempt

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged. ↗

— Elton Gallegly

#attempt #card #cards #consular #criminals

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#cows #daring #eaten #enough #exists

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#attempts #built #first #his #man

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. ↗

— Gilbert Murray

#caused #fact #greek #limit #meaning

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#argument #attempting #basis #eight #five

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin. ↗

— John von Neumann

#anyone #attempts #course #generate #living

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful. ↗

— Pierre Nicole

#failings #hide #latter #most #others

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#against #agenda #attempt #courts #culture

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#avoid #away #behavior #entity #give

As so often happens with Washington scandals, it isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. ↗

— Tom Petri

#cover-up #gets #happens #most #often