Traditions are built by that one person who starts…

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's…

— Phil Ochs

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

— Noel Gallagher

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the…

— Rod Parsley

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

— Anonymous

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

— Peter Storey

“We all perish in our last attempt to live.”

— Robin Hobb

There was an attempt on my life.

— Jovenel Moise

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

— Salman Rushdie

“Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly and deceitful attack upon people’s humanity…

— Christina Engela

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

— Andre Gide

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…

— Teju Cole

It's my first sort of commercial attempt, but it made sense for me because I'm not that kind of guy and I'm not going…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

In all civilizations we've studied, all cultures that we know of across the Earth and across time have invested some kind of attempt to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.

— Neil Gaiman

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by…

— James P. Moran