Quotes of: Attempt Keyword

As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Rachel Cusk

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

Sue Monk Kidd

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.

Charlie Chaplin

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

Bennie Thompson

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

John Bonham

The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.

Bill Alexander

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

Zadie Smith

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

Paul Harris

Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

Walter Kirn

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

Ehud Olmert

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

Carlisle Floyd

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.

Emily Blunt

If it's glorious to fail in great attempts, then #gloriousfail should definitely be a thing.

Brandon David Hastings

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.

Brooks Robinson

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

John Denham

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

James Fenton

George Banks: Kindly do not attempt to cloud the issue with facts.

Mary Poppins