Attempt Quotes

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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. — Tennessee Williams
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little… — Jane Austen
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made… — Audre Lorde
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human historyâ€”money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slaveryâ€”the long terrible story… — C.S. Lewis
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to… — Margaret Weis
To plot is to live. [â€¦] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we try to devise… — Don DeLillo
A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. [â€¦] The telegraph… — Neil Postman
And taking her friendâ€™s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a womanâ€™s heart which the male often finds… — Guy de Maupassant
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itselfâ€”the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. — Robert A. Heinlein
There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner… — Mark Twain
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering… — Viktor E. Frankl
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,… — Joseph Conrad
Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which… — Ayn Rand
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a… — Italo Calvino
She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very… — Jane Austen
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon.… — Lee Child
Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor.… — Charlaine Harris

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