Famous quotes containing the words rescue and/or attempt:
“I positively like the sense, when I dine out, and stoop to rescue a falling handkerchief, that I am not going to rub my shoulder against a heart. What are hearts doing on sleeves?”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves ... is what I call hell.”
—André Malraux (1901–1976)