Attempt Quotes

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

An attempt is already underway to revise history - to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in.

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

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.

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.

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.

I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

But now 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.

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