#attempts

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

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#after #american #areas #asia #attempts

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

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#anyone #attempts #himself #his #immediate

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. ↗

— James Fenton

#back #herself #lullaby #mother #ogre

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

#analytical #attempts #bread #descriptive #does

Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why. ↗

— Warren Weaver

#analyze #answers #attempts #bad #behave

I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#decipher #defies #expectation #fill #hope

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#between #capital #communication #country #enormous