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I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket.
Tim Gunn
Own
Pants
My Own
Attempt
Like
Jacket
Pair
Things
I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Todd Akin
Life
Government
Family
Legal
Marriage
Oppose
Unions
Civil
Civil Government
Attempt
Traditional
Traditional Marriage
Privileges
Family Life
Same
Affords
Any
Grant
Homosexual
When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human rights abuses and attempt to pass judgment on Israel - a country with a vibrant liberal democracy - the credibility of the UNHRC is further undermined, and the United States must not be silent.
Todd Young
Democracy
Rights
Country
Judgment
Sit
Own
Human Rights
Liberal
Liberal Democracy
States
Further
Worst
Deflect
Possible
Must
Silent
Seek
Records
Attempt
Attention
Countries
Abuse
Undermined
Pass
Israel
Human
Vibrant
United
United States
Credibility
Despite the increase in world attention toward Sudan in the past months, the genocide in Darfur has continued without any serious attempt by the Sudanese government to do what governments primarily exist to do, protect their citizens.
Tom Allen
Government
Genocide
World
Past
Increase
Despite
Months
Darfur
Citizens
Attempt
Primarily
Attention
Toward
Protect
Without
Continue
Exist
Governments
Any
In The Past
Sudan
Serious
There's nothing I won't attempt.
Tracey Ullman
Nothing
Attempt
No one always or never does anything. People don't see themselves as one-dimensional, so you shouldn't attempt to define them as such.
Travis Bradberry
You
People
Define
One-Dimensional
See
Attempt
Never
No-One
Does
Always
Anything
Them
Themselves
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
Val McDermid
Will
Own
Would
Would-Be
My Own
Write
Attempt
Attempting
Highest
Highest Level
Prose
Make
Jane
Sparkle
Level
Bring
Suicidal
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
Mathematics
Game
World
Logical
Understanding
Our
Physical
Entirely
Physical World
Attempt
Poker
Arithmetic
Well
Scientific
Limited
Were
Very
Get
Probability
Processes
Might
Far
Should
Use
Reasoning
Grasp
All I know is that I intend to do films which are different from each other, work with good directors and on great stories so that I get to grow as an actor. That's my only attempt.
Vicky Kaushal
Work
Good
Great
Films
Other
Only
Directors
Attempt
Great Stories
Know
Get
Intend
Different
Stories
Which
Each
Grow
Actor
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Victoria Jackson
God
Religion
Relationship
Man
Back
Attempt
Himself
Bind
I generally support just about every secession attempt that comes along. If, in the future, there is that kind of a dispute in Ethereum, I'd definitely be quite happy to see Ethereum A go in one direction and Ethereum B go the other.
Vitalik Buterin
Future
Happy
Every
Other
Definitely
Kind
See
About
Direction
Attempt
Generally
Support
Along
Go
Quite
Just
Ethereum
Dispute
Secession
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
Walter Pater
Religion
Made
Christianity
Complete
Ancient
Reconcile
Some
Attempt
Scholars
Renaissance
Without
Italian
Account
Greece
Century
Fifteenth
Notice
Certain
In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.
Werner Heisenberg
War
Problem
Collective
Drive
Energy
Scale
Would
Constitute
Atomic
Atomic Energy
Attempt
Part
Germany
Effort
America
American
Decided
War Effort
Producing
Production
Engines
Large
Large Part
Bombs
Applied
I think we are the first feminist or first attempt at a feminist dating app.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
First
Think
Dating
Attempt
Feminist
App
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
Wilhelm Dilthey
Knowledge
Science
Eyes
Own
Other
Gaze
Eye
Would
Would-Be
Seeing
Directing
Attempt
Like
Without
Than
Modern
Behind
Modern Science
Acknowledge
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.
Will Oldham
People
Writing
Other
Find
Total
Some
Give
Take
Attempt
Songs
Hear
Offensive
Listen
Interactions
Them
Stranger
Reason
Profession
Things
The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
William Bligh
Strength
Made
Increased
Other
Considerable
Considerably
Respectability
Secure
Attempt
Town
Rendered
Force
Within
Years
Very
Any
Eight
Regard
Pace
Which
Against
Cape
Last
Kept
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
William Carey
God
Great
Great Things
Attempt
Expect
Things
All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.
Woody Norris
Quality
Exactly
Percent
More
More And More
Higher
Higher Quality
Attempt
Perfectly
Know
Sound
Audio
Opposite
Linear
Means
Based
Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
Yair Lapid
Life
Truth
People
World
Try
Kind
Find
See
Some
Attempt
Head
Look
Intellectuals
Manage
Cannot
Create
Who
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
Yann Martel
Success
Failure
Book
Every
Has-Been
Something
Previous
Write
Attempt
Written
Understand
Been
Irrelevant
Different
Want
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
Zadie Smith
Future
Down
Lies
Neural
Through
Attempt
Road
True
Brain
Cut
Us
Convince
Novel
Novels
Routes
We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.
Zhou Yongkang
Thoughts
Chaos
Those
Must
Attempt
Clear
Head
Boycott
Trains
Confidently
China
Separate
Stand
Bring
Islam's basic principles of belief, worship, morality, and behavior are not affected by changing times. Islam does not propose a certain unchangeable form of government or attempt to shape it. Islam has never offered nor established a theocracy in its name.
Fethullah Gulen
Government
Behavior
Islam
Changing
Worship
Morality
Unchangeable
Propose
Shape
Attempt
Never
Name
Principles
Does
Affected
Nor
Times
Offered
Established
Form
Theocracy
Certain
Belief
Basic
Basic Principles
I apologize that I made an attempt to be funny and edgy… and it didn't work.
Elizabeth May
Work
Funny
Made
Attempt
Edgy
Apologize
I even reject and condemn in the strongest terms the idea, the consideration of a military coup. If I had the chance I would stand in front of the people who would attempt such a thing and open my arms and beg them to stop.
Fethullah Gulen
People
Military
Consideration
Would
Strongest
Attempt
Open
Had
Idea
Coup
Terms
Arms
Condemn
Beg
Front
Stop
Them
Stand
Such A Thing
Who
Even
Thing
Reject
Chance
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