Attempt Quotes

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. — Francis Bacon
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun.… — Kevin Bacon
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings. — Balthus
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the… — Amelia Barr
The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must… — Max Baucus
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. — Simone de Beauvoir
I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my… — Kate Beckinsale
A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to… — John Berger
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility… — Alfred Adler
If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for… — Wendell Berry
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government… — Michael Bloomberg
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan. — Ben Affleck
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series… — David Bohm
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. — James Agee
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane. — Alain de Botton
I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which… — Jo Brand
Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who… — Richard Branson
If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach… — Anne Bronte

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