Attempt Quotes

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.

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

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

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

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.

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

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.

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

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.

Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

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

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

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.

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

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

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?

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

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. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

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 with the child.

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.

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

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

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 impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

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