Quotes about Attempt

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else. Votes: 3

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Votes: 3

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure. Votes: 3

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. Votes: 3

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "first Attempt In Learning". Votes: 3

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. Votes: 3

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Votes: 3

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. Votes: 3

Love to the love tear, even too, same evil, Attempt, without strength and armor, To reach the unreachable star.. Votes: 3

Attempt something so great for God that it is doomed to fail unless God is in it, and you're in it as well. Votes: 3

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. Votes: 1

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. Votes: 1

I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to. Votes: 1

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Votes: 1

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Votes: 1

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature. Votes: 1

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. Votes: 1

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. Votes: 1

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho. Votes: 1

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. Votes: 1

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world. Votes: 1

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. Votes: 1

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 all the time. Votes: 1

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try. Votes: 1

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years. Votes: 1

No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. Votes: 1

I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. Votes: 1

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman. Votes: 1

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal. Votes: 1

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 interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Votes: 1

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time. Votes: 1

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous. Votes: 1

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion? Votes: 1

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. Votes: 1

Marriage is almost as old as dirt, and it was defined in the garden between Adam and Eve. One man, one woman for life till death do you part. So I would never attempt to try to redefine marriage. And I don't think anyone else should either. So do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't. Votes: 1

Familiarity breeds attempt Votes: 0

Familiarity breeds attempt. Votes: 0

There's nothing I won't attempt. Votes: 0

Most imitators attempt the inimitable. Votes: 0

Either attempt it not, or succeed. Votes: 0

Never attempt to accelerate your progress Votes: 0

Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies. Votes: 0

Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country. Votes: 0

Those who attempt to level never equalize Votes: 0

Making the attempt is what matters most. Votes: 0

Do not attempt too much at once. Votes: 0

I attempt from love's sickness to fly. Votes: 0

Art is an attempt to integrate evil. Votes: 0

Many attempt to harvest what was never planted. Votes: 0

Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible. Votes: 0

Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition. Votes: 0

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward Votes: 0

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism Votes: 0

Parades are man's attempt to make traffic exciting. Votes: 0

Garfield's assassination attempt made the whole nation care. Votes: 0

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life. Votes: 0

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work. Votes: 0

Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk. Votes: 0

Desire is an attempt to feel the void. Votes: 0

Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. Votes: 0

The attempt and not the deed confounds us. Votes: 0

Every addiction is an attempt to slay hope. Votes: 0

The wind is rising...we must attempt to live. Votes: 0

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. Votes: 0

We must always attempt to lift as we climb Votes: 0

Only atheists attempt to comprehend god with their mind. Votes: 0

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly. Votes: 0

To achieve the impossible, you must attempt the absurd Votes: 0

Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt. Votes: 0

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt. Votes: 0

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. Votes: 0

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. Votes: 0

If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God. Votes: 0

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself. Votes: 0

Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. Votes: 0

It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action. Votes: 0

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence. Votes: 0

To failure at something is an attempt to succeed Votes: 0

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow. Votes: 0

All human actions are an attempt to meet needs. Votes: 0

Any attempt to treat people as semihumans only dehumanizes them... Votes: 0

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. Votes: 0

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. Votes: 0

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness. Votes: 0

Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them. Votes: 0

What doesn't kill you, usually succeeds in the second attempt. Votes: 0

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem. Votes: 0

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me. Votes: 0

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell. Votes: 0

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do Votes: 0

Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product Votes: 0

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it. Votes: 0

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden. Votes: 0

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Votes: 0

Life in this world is an attempt to see God. Votes: 0

I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt. Votes: 0

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. Votes: 0

At its grandest, political correctness is an attempt to accelerate evolution. Votes: 0

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. Votes: 0

Either do not attempt at all or go through with it. Votes: 0

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. Votes: 0

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental. Votes: 0

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Votes: 0

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music. Votes: 0

My old teacher's definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. Votes: 0

The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose. Votes: 0

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. Votes: 0

The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain. Votes: 0

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. Votes: 0

The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. Votes: 0

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation. Votes: 0

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators. Votes: 0

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Votes: 0

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right! Votes: 0

Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash. Votes: 0

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. Votes: 0

Beware the meek ... for we shall attempt to inherit the Earth. Votes: 0

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. Votes: 0

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. Votes: 0

Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. Votes: 0

Chernobyl is a theme worthy of Dostoevsky, an attempt to justify mankind. Votes: 0

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure. Votes: 0

The sage does not attempt anything very big, and thus achieves greatness. Votes: 0

Somebody's real voice is probably the hardest one that somebody could attempt. Votes: 0

To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind. Votes: 0

DO NOT attempt to bring up other people's children through your text. Votes: 0

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them. Votes: 0

I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible. Votes: 0

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead. Votes: 0

Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile. Votes: 0

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt. Votes: 0

Only Valek would consider an attempt on my life a fascinating diversion. Votes: 0

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. Votes: 0

Our attempt at focusing must give way to the vacant all-embracing stare Votes: 0

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it. Votes: 0

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. Votes: 0

What God expects us to attempt, He also enables us to achieve. Votes: 0

I attempt to connect with my muse and go on demon rides. Votes: 0

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind. Votes: 0

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person. Votes: 0

A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all. Votes: 0

This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in. Votes: 0

Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets. Votes: 0

Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable. Votes: 0

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Votes: 0

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. Votes: 0

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. Votes: 0

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception. Votes: 0

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. Votes: 0

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul Votes: 0

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity. Votes: 0

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation. Votes: 0

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature Votes: 0

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich Votes: 0

I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things. Votes: 0

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Votes: 0

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. Votes: 0

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God. Votes: 0

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. Votes: 0

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself. Votes: 0

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior. Votes: 0

It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. Votes: 0

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. Votes: 0

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong. Votes: 0

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure. Votes: 0

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box. Votes: 0

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse. Votes: 0

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. Votes: 0

I think I'll not attempt to do a 'Fish Out Of Water 2.' Votes: 0

You must learn to define the problem before you attempt to cure it. Votes: 0

In many countries adult pornography legislation is an attempt to legislate something else. Votes: 0

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul Votes: 0

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero. Votes: 0

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child. Votes: 0

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life. Votes: 0

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. Votes: 0

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants. Votes: 0

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it. Votes: 0

Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean. Votes: 0

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone. Votes: 0

Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them. Votes: 0

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life. Votes: 0

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together. Votes: 0

No man should attempt to teach others what he has never learned himself Votes: 0

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye. Votes: 0

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future. Votes: 0

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt. Votes: 0

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right. Votes: 0

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. Votes: 0

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour." Votes: 0

Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose. Votes: 0

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film. Votes: 0

There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start. Votes: 0

Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues. Votes: 0

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase. Votes: 0

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour. Votes: 0

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on. Votes: 0

Bringing about Armageddon can be dangerous. Do not attempt it in your own home. Votes: 0

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. Votes: 0

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Votes: 0

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt. Votes: 0

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. Votes: 0

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. Votes: 0

Much of living is an attempt to preserve oneself by annexing and occupying others. Votes: 0

No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. Votes: 0

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles. Votes: 0

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform. Votes: 0

For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. Votes: 0

To failure at something is an attempt to succeed. Be strong and try again. Votes: 0

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Votes: 0

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them. Votes: 0

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. Votes: 0

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality. Votes: 0

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. Votes: 0

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. Votes: 0

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things. Votes: 0

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well. Votes: 0

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it. Votes: 0

Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe. Votes: 0

Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another." Votes: 0

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. Votes: 0

You would think that Halloweens tomorrow because of their attempt to scare the American public. Votes: 0

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. Votes: 0

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved. Votes: 0

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task. Votes: 0

We need to live in mindful harmony with our feelings, not attempt to control them. Votes: 0

There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty. Votes: 0

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. Votes: 0

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science. Votes: 0

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. Votes: 0

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that. Votes: 0

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity. Votes: 0

That field goal attempt was so far to the left it nearly decapitated Lyndon LaRouche. Votes: 0

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar. Votes: 0

The power to console is not within corporeal reach - though its attempt is precious. Votes: 0

Religion is man's attempt to reach God and Christianity is God's attempt to reach man. Votes: 0

I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in. Votes: 0

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. Votes: 0

You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt Votes: 0

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing. Votes: 0

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Votes: 0

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt. Votes: 0

Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit. Votes: 0

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail. Votes: 0

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. Votes: 0

Making movies is an effort, is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence. Votes: 0

The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt Votes: 0

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist. Votes: 0

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. Votes: 0

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness. Votes: 0

Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure. Votes: 0

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. Votes: 0

The attempt is all the wedge that splits its knotty way betwixt the impossible and possible. Votes: 0

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain. Votes: 0

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. Votes: 0

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. Votes: 0

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. Votes: 0

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. Votes: 0

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. Votes: 0

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless. Votes: 0

Physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an attempt by an atom to understand itself. Votes: 0

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah. Votes: 0

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. Votes: 0

Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. Votes: 0

In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth. Votes: 0

Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power. Votes: 0

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. Votes: 0

Don't live your life like an attempt, because if you fail there is no second attempt. Votes: 0

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. Votes: 0

It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life. Votes: 0

(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl) Votes: 0

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. Votes: 0

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Votes: 0

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe. Votes: 0

The blame game is already a lost game, so don't attempt dressing up to play it! Votes: 0

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. Votes: 0

Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love. Votes: 0

Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love. Votes: 0

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous. Votes: 0

No government, no head of state, made any attempt to avert or arrest the Boer War. Votes: 0

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it. Votes: 0

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once. Votes: 0

My work is my work and I will attempt to sell it for what it is. Votes: 0

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. Votes: 0

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny. Votes: 0

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. Votes: 0

The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception. Votes: 0

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible. Votes: 0

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. Votes: 0

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. Votes: 0

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal Votes: 0

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal. Votes: 0

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt. Votes: 0

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect. Votes: 0

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. Votes: 0

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another. Votes: 0

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. Votes: 0

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. Votes: 0

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards. Votes: 0

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia. Votes: 0

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life. Votes: 0

Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. Votes: 0

Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. Votes: 0

I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success. Votes: 0

It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important. Votes: 0

False modesty is an attempt to tear yourself down. True humility focuses more on build up others. Votes: 0

My most important task must be an attempt to bring the monster under democratic direction and control. Votes: 0

I have tried many times to express my feelings, but at each attempt, I find myself tongue-tied. Votes: 0

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous. Votes: 0

To the Tax Office: All is over between us. Please don't attempt to communicate with me again. Votes: 0

I attempt to channel my anger into the tip of my forefinger as I press the shutter. Votes: 0

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable Votes: 0

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. Votes: 0

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. Votes: 0

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt. Votes: 0

Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding. Votes: 0

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane. Votes: 0

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way. Votes: 0

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong Votes: 0

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt. Votes: 0

"¦I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt. Votes: 0

For me drawing is an attempt to understand what I feel about the world I live in. Votes: 0

I'm going to attempt to do everything that I can to keep the Rams in St. Louis, Votes: 0

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free. Votes: 0

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it. Votes: 0

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. Votes: 0

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth. Votes: 0

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well. Votes: 0

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself Votes: 0

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. Votes: 0

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Votes: 0

I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell. Votes: 0

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India. Votes: 0

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. Votes: 0

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . . Votes: 0

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation. Votes: 0

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. Votes: 0

A lot of things in life seem impossible until it's done. Don't be afraid to attempt the impossible. Votes: 0

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play. Votes: 0

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt. Votes: 0

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now. Votes: 0

(The bill) is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives. Votes: 0

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Votes: 0

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. Votes: 0

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature Votes: 0

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. Votes: 0

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts. Votes: 0

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now Votes: 0

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics. Votes: 0

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them. Votes: 0

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.... Votes: 0

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change. Votes: 0

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being. Votes: 0

A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos. Votes: 0

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding it is the deepest part of autobiography Votes: 0

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. Votes: 0

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. Votes: 0

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others. Votes: 0

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day. Votes: 0

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Votes: 0

It is, of course, much easier to shout, abuse, and howl than to attempt to relate, to explain. Votes: 0

What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds. Votes: 0

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree. Votes: 0

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. Votes: 0

I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement Votes: 0

Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible. Votes: 0

I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt. Votes: 0

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out. Votes: 0

You're a terrible liar, Sage, but I'm still touched you'd attempt it for my sake. A for effort. Votes: 0

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. Votes: 0

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write Votes: 0

I do think that calling a book nonfiction affirms a kind of responsibility to an attempt at truth. Votes: 0

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively. Votes: 0

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. Votes: 0

This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance. Votes: 0

The new vulcanism is really a daring attempt to connect the present, incomprehensible world to a past, unknown one. Votes: 0

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it. Votes: 0

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world Votes: 0

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself. Votes: 0

You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke. Votes: 0

The destruction of the world is the last, almost desperate attempt to save myself from being crushed by it Votes: 0

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well. Votes: 0

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward. Votes: 0

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. Votes: 0

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason. Votes: 0

I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different. Votes: 0

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it? Votes: 0

Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price. Votes: 0

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt. Votes: 0

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it. -David Richo A rolling stone can gather no moss Votes: 0

My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me. Votes: 0

The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy. Votes: 0

In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...]. Votes: 0

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. Votes: 0

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. Votes: 0

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature. Votes: 0

On the side of box of my superman costume it actually said - 'Do not attempt to fly!' Votes: 0

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate. Votes: 0

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt. Votes: 0

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. Votes: 0

Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort Votes: 0

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol. Votes: 0

Without a doubt, rowing is the hardest thing you can attempt to learn in a short period of time. Votes: 0

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death. Votes: 0

A choral dance: an attempt to impose upon a chance gathering of a few dozen guests a communal feeling. Votes: 0

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter. Votes: 0

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own. Votes: 0

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt. Votes: 0

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them. Votes: 0

I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all. Votes: 0

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love. Votes: 0

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. Votes: 0

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. If we attempt to steal a glimpse of its features it disappears. Votes: 0

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet. Votes: 0

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling. Votes: 0

We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words. Votes: 0

When emotions arise, I don't attempt to suppress or repress them, so that I can discern their basis or cause. Votes: 0

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. Votes: 0

When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. Votes: 0

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time. Votes: 0

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation! Votes: 0

Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests. Votes: 0

I propose that it only matters that you attempt to catch a fish. Doing so brings you close to nature. Votes: 0

Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is. Votes: 0

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters. Votes: 0

Obama's only attempt to unify the country was to unify people who believe that his enemies need to be eliminated. Votes: 0

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. Votes: 0

When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer. Votes: 0

If you are sad don't try to influence an environment but if you are happy attempt everyone you can reach. Votes: 0

Because I believe that abortion is murder, I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it. Votes: 0

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful. Votes: 0

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it. Votes: 0

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure. Votes: 0

If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out. Votes: 0

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God. Votes: 0

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. Votes: 0

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God Votes: 0

For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience? Votes: 0

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. Votes: 0

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. Votes: 0

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. Votes: 0

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings Votes: 0

The guns reminded me that this was just an attempt to punch holes in the darkness that enveloped us now. Votes: 0

I do things like hem a pair of pants, I do my own tailoring but I wouldn't attempt a jacket. Votes: 0

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt. Votes: 0

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand Votes: 0

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed. Votes: 0

We try to rehabilitate most people, but if you have set fire to Chicago, we probably won't attempt to rehabilitate you Votes: 0

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream. Votes: 0

Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. Votes: 0

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Votes: 0

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement. Votes: 0

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. Votes: 0

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work. Votes: 0

The girl, indeed, is rare who does not, on getting married, attempt to remodel her husband according to her own ideas. Votes: 0

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully. Votes: 0

After they underestimated you, you Iraqis, now they've come on land; this attempt is our chance to incur losses on them Votes: 0

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little. Votes: 0

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison. Votes: 0

Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over. Votes: 0

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again. Votes: 0

A child falls many times in attempt to walk. But never quit trying and eventually, the child is able to walk. Votes: 0

Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it. Votes: 0

I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made. Votes: 0

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis. Votes: 0

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her. Votes: 0

The evil was not in either ideal; the evil was in the attempt to impose that ideal by force upon others. Votes: 0

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt) Votes: 0

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. Votes: 0

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling. Votes: 0

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness. Votes: 0

A suburb is an attempt to get out of reach of the city without having the city be out of reach. Votes: 0

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band. Votes: 0

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more. Votes: 0

A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance. Votes: 0

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality. Votes: 0

How can you be happy in a world like this? You have got to be crazy to even attempt something like that. Votes: 0

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space. Votes: 0

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency. Votes: 0

One might as well attempt to describe the smoothness of the wind as to paint a clear picture of his complete swing. Votes: 0

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it. Votes: 0

Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. Votes: 0

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work. Votes: 0

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took. Votes: 0

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him Votes: 0

We, as writers, have to figure out a way to create a consciousness in language. It's crazy even to attempt to do that. Votes: 0

I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent. Votes: 0

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird! Votes: 0

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it. Votes: 0

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well. Votes: 0

To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible. To be all we can be, we must dream of being more. Votes: 0

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers. Votes: 0

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world. Votes: 0

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. Votes: 0

There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt. Votes: 0

We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group. Votes: 0

I attempt to be who I am and it's fun. At the same time, growing up doing what I'm doing can be a little crazy. Votes: 0

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are. Votes: 0

As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure. Votes: 0