Attempt Quotes

Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.

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.

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

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

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

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts.

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

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do.

I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.

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

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

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

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

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

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

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

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

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

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

It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.

We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children.

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

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.