Attempts Quotes

526 Attempts quotes by 450 unique authors

I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who… — Sarah Dessen
...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic. — Carl Jung
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her… — Thomas Hardy
I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with… — Mary Hoffman
It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it. — Amy Hempel
The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind. — Libba Bray
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to… — Jane Jacobs
The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. — Miguel de Unamuno
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim… — Katherine Dunn
No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying… — Bertrand Russell
Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. — Bruce Lee
Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness,… — Laura Whitcomb
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself. — Tracy Kidder
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,… — Martin Amis
Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with… — Max Brooks
To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. — John Fowles
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and… — Vladimir Lenin
Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful — Michael Moorcock
The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities,… — Albert Camus
We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it. — Eldridge Cleaver
I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard… — Harold Pinter
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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