Attempt Quotes

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Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but… — Gene Roddenberry
nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge,… — Charles Bukowski
Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our… — Vincent Van Gogh
What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I canâ€™t let you do that. I . . . I forbid you.â€ It… — Tessa Dare
Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, youâ€™re bound to trip up and stumble. — Tessa Dare
you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. — Rachel Joyce
Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
She did nothing to try to control the shakes that rattled her body,and didn't attempt to stop herself from crying. Tears left both of her… — J R Ward
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and placeâ€“ a single book… — Nadine Gordimer
Too vast is Man and too imponderable his nature. Too varied are his talents, and too inexhaustible his strength. Beware of those who attempt to… — Mikhail Naimy
She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure… — Paulo Coelho
Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if… — Martha C. Nussbaum
Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others. — Janet Frame
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning… — Alexandra Bracken
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. Youâ€™ve got to make a sincere… — Lou Holtz
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on manâ€™s shoulders; and when the attempt is… — Robert Louis Stevenson
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to… — Julian Barnes
In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...]. — Tina Fey

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