Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. — Lee Iacocca
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. — Samuel Johnson
We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We… — Chief Joseph
I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt… — Michio Kaku
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. — Kevin Kelly
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch… — Ben Kingsley
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of… — Michael Korda
I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to. — Ashton Kutcher
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open… — Christopher Lasch
It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage… — Christopher Lasch
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul,… — D. H. Lawrence
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. — Fran Lebowitz
The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape… — Rush Limbaugh
Militant feminists are pro-choice because it's their ultimate avenue of power over men. And believe me, to them it is a question of power. It… — Rush Limbaugh
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to… — Jose Marti
One of the big no-nos in cyberspace is that you do not go into a social activity, a chat group or something like that, and… — Judith Martin
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt… — John Stuart Mill
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death,… — Henry Miller
I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful. — Helen Mirren
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. — Alanis Morissette
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's… — Elon Musk
The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn't even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not… — Elon Musk
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All… — John Henry Newman

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