Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence… — Mark Gevisser
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it. — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends… — George Haven Putnam
In a campaign against more than one state or army, it is more fruitful to concentrate first against the weaker partner than to attempt the… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. — Robert Breault
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any… — C.S. Lewis
It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting ... A strategist… — B. H. Liddell Hart
Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable — Derek R. Audette
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich,… — Lesslie Newbigin
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in nature and purpose… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of… — Louis Bromfield
Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections. — Peter Prange
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in… — Bill Nighy
The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to… — Bill Nighy
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

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