Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

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
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not… — John Hawkes
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. — Joseph Heller
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to… — Anita Hill
I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too… — Edmund Hillary
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts,… — Christopher Hitchens
To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. — Thomas Hood
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to… — Edward Hopper
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its… — Edward Hopper
No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. — Harry Houdini
A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally… — Kurt Huber

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