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Attempted murder should carry the same penalty as first-degree murder. Otherwise, you're simply rewarding incompetence. -- Burt Prelutsky
I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings. -- Thomas Brodie-Sangster
I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they? -- Matt Groening
How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn! -- Thomas Chatterton
Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her. -- Hilaire Belloc
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly. -- Quintilian
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted. -- Samuel Smiles
It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up. -- Tom Petri
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise. -- Sean Connery
As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told. -- P. T. Barnum
There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before. -- John Bonham
I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own onenes with God also, so he's a precursor. -- Eckhart Tolle
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. -- Winston Churchill
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain. -- Alfred Russel Wallace
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators. -- Richard Ernst
A traitor is a betrayer - one who practices injury, while professing friendship. Benedict Arnold was a traitor, solely because, while professing friendship for the American cause, he attempted to injure it. An open enemy, however criminal in other respects, is no traitor. -- Lysander Spooner
Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain. -- Russell Means
I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it. -- Bobby Knight
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. -- Herman Kahn
I think we can really use magic in a way never attempted before to inspire these children, help rally their self-confidence and even help them develop social skills. This is a national effort, not just here in Las Vegas. I know we can give them a true passion. -- Criss Angel
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote. -- Alice Walker
There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy. -- Adam Richman
I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs. -- Paula Cole
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing. -- Annie Baker
With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life. -- Lupe Fiasco
Only six need be attempted. -- Bertrand Russell
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted. -- Hannah More
The attempted assassinations against me were not accidental. -- Akhmad Kadyrov
Chelsea Manning attempted to commit suicide twice last year. -- Amy Goodman
It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted. -- Eliphas Levi
I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television -- Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley
Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution. -- Robert Herrick
Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog. -- C. S. Lewis
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet. -- John Crowe Ransom
No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear -- Solon
America was built on an attempted genocide, anyway. Guns were completely necessary. -- Jim Jarmusch
Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way. -- Mason Cooley
That's blackmail on top of attempted murder, Kye. I can officially kill you -- Keri Arthur
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -- Samuel Johnson
Nothing [] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. -- Samuel Johnson
Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before. -- Abhishek Shukla
Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle. -- Henry Fuseli
I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do. -- Rod Stewart
When you're an underdog, you're forced to try things you would never otherwise have attempted. -- Malcolm Gladwell
What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I'm the only person I know of who's ever been pulled over for attempted speeding. -- Paula Poundstone
The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole. -- Plato
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. -- Laura Miller
When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death. -- Honore de Balzac
If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted -- Francis Bacon
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture -- Alasdair MacIntyre
The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection. -- David Foster Wallace
After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment. -- George Edward Woodberry
I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject. -- Chuck Close
It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine. -- Maria Edgeworth
The Ten Commandments should be headed like an examination paper: No more than six to be attempted. -- Bertrand Russell
She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision -- Mike Fitzpatrick
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition. -- William Hazlitt
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. -- Eugenio Montale
Incarcerating people for their [drug] consumption choices has the consistency of arresting a survivor of suicide for attempted murder . -- Ilana Mercer
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. -- Jim Harrison
We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear. -- Thomas Jefferson
Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. -- Milton Friedman
You do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but you have lost love because you never attempted obedience. -- C. S. Lewis
I went through a lot of abuse and a lot of really difficult things growing up - depression, anxiety, attempted suicide. -- Pattie Mallette
However, FDA attempted to reverse this clear congressional intent in March, 1979, by proposing to regulate vitamins and minerals as 'Over-The-Counter' drugs.. -- Orrin Hatch
Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English. -- Pankaj Mishra
Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind. -- Mike Harding
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess. -- Thomas Paine
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Governments have a legitimate concern with slowing population growth. But often this has been attempted with little concern for the individuals most affected. -- Ruth Simmons
I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot. -- Leo Buscaglia
I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well. -- David Gilmour
Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do. -- Israelmore Ayivor
There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore. -- Colin Trevorrow
The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet. -- Eric Ambler
The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain. -- Bill Alexander
She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet. -- Nora Roberts
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. -- Susan Sontag
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. -- Emily Post
Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance. -- George Washington
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
In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect. -- William Eldridge Odom
She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away. -- Maggie Stiefvater
If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history. -- Jeremy Corbyn
A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it. -- Virgil Thomson
General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place. -- John Buford
The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age. -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine. -- Emily Blunt
No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems. -- Kevin Mitnick
What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic. -- Romare Bearden
The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined. -- Julian Assange
Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity, science and reason. -- Allen W. Wood
Don't be afraid to fail. Anything that I've ever attempted I was always willing to fail. You can't always win, but don't be afraid of making decisions. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk. -- John Waters
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. -- Harry S. Truman
The value of a problem is not so much coming up with the answer as in the ideas and attempted ideas it forces on the would be solver. -- Israel Nathan Herstein
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret. Acta eruditorum -- Gottfried Leibniz
You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted. -- Ralph Marston
I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work. -- Gerard Depardieu
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected. -- Dick Francis
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically. -- Philip Kitcher
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. -- Edward Hopper
But ultimately we attempted to find some middle ground because at the end of the day we love each other in spite of all our many and vast differences. -- Melanie Shankle
When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But-why did you kick me downstairs? -- John Philip Kemble
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism. -- Federica Montseny
Many school administrators are so cautious that they have erroneously erased all traces of religion. Some have run roughshod over teachers. Others have attempted to squelch all discussion of religion. -- Mathew Staver
Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me. -- Jo Brand
The person who achieves spectacular failure has at least attempted something bold. Failure is a temporary condition. Success is likewise temporary. Life, itself, is temporary - so quit hesitating. Do something! -- Roy H. Williams
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant. -- Kate Chopin

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