That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.
Beware the meek. . . for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth.
Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part of the people, as establishing a precedent for the entrance of a most dangerous complicity between Church and State, thereby subtly undermining the foundation of liberty, so carefully laid by the wisdom of our fathers.
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself
I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
The struggle against subjectivism was the attempt to avoid the charge of what was then called "idealism" or "nihilism", i. e. , that we know nothing more than our own representations.
When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.
Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.
Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself
The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.
For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.
I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
He'd kill for her, destroy for her, savage anyone who dared attempt to take her from him. And he would never let her go. . . even if she begged for her freedom.
No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.