Attempt Quotes

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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance… — Andy Goldsworthy
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything… — Ryan Gosling
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep,… — Baltasar Gracian
It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards… — Lady Gregory
Clinton's attempt to socialize healthcare was the second most disgusting thing he did in the oval office. I can't remember was the first thing was. — Ann Coulter
When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any… — Ann Coulter
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience. — Rachel Cusk
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. — Bette Davis
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so… — Richard Dawkins
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like… — Denis Diderot
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. — Benjamin Disraeli
For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally.… — Ann Druyan
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the… — David Duchovny
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Umberto Eco
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. — Albert Einstein
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. — M.C. Escher
Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. — Federico Fellini
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. — Vaclav Havel

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