Attempt Quotes

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We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous… — Baron de Montesquieu
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. — Jonathan Swift
We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it… — G I Gurdjieff
There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to… — Winston Churchill
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to… — Rose Macaulay
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished… — Eric Hoffer
Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash. — Dave Barry
There's no mastery to be had. You love the attempt. You don't master a story any more than you master a river. You feel lucky… — Garrison Keillor
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,… — Alexander Pope
The attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man… — Stephen Leacock
All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned… — Mukesh Ambani
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation… — Terry Pratchett
To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. — John Mason Brown
Perhaps I have no talent, but all vanity aside - I do not believe that anyone makes an artistic attempt, no matter how small, without… — Paul Gauguin
Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three… — Dan Quayle
He who does not attempt to make peace / When small discords arise, / Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey /… — Akkineni Nagarjuna
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child... — Mary Roberts Rinehart
And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow… — Felix Mendelssohn
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so… — Andrew Greeley

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