Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

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. […] 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. […] The telegraph… — Neil Postman
And taking her friend’s hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman’s heart which the male often finds… — Guy de Maupassant
ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—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
A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And… — C.S. Lewis
We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by… — Ted Dekker
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have… — Graham Greene
Don't be silly, Dawlish. I'm sure you are an excellent Auror, I seem to remember you achieved 'Outstanding' in all your N.E.W.T.s, but if you… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot… — Andre Gide
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.… — Hermann Hesse
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. — Bertrand Russell
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim… — Ilona Andrews
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even… — Paulo Freire

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