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All sins are attempts to fill voids.
I had 14 failed attempts at having kids.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.
We have to continue to resist all attempts to change our constitution.
Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
I promise to fight against any attempts to undermine Roe v. Wade in the Senate.
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
There have been lots of attempts to make a movie of 'Les Miserables' over the years.
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed.
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Attempts to minimize the deep racial wounds in our history only set our society as a whole back.
As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.
Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.
The BDS movement attempts to undermine and destabilize Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East.
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.
After my first film, I was having trouble finding a second film. I had a lot of attempts that failed.
Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
Russia and the U.S. must jointly manage expectations to ensure that attempts to 'reset' our relationship succeed.
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.
I worry that there are attempts to push faith out of the public space. Clearly it happens at a level of local power.
Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
Some young filmmakers, unfortunately, don't have the ability to resist attempts to maybe cut their films down unfairly.
Attempts are being made to turn Pakistan into a security state. If they succeed they should better rename it 'ISIstan.'
We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down... I'm not going to go anywhere.
Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.
Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.
Companies need to have rules - that's a given - but they don't have to be shortsighted and lazy attempts at creating order.
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
If President Obama or any president ever attempts gun confiscation in America, there should be and will be a second civil war.
There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.
In the earlier years of my career, I made my own attempts to fit in and be accepted as one of the tribe of Sand Hill Road guys.
Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.