I get to attempt great feats. That's all I ever wanted.

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