Quotes of: Attempt Keyword

There's no shame in being romantic at all. I think people want to feel that sense of romance, which is rarely even attempted anymore.

Colin Trevorrow

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

Davey Havok

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.

Noam Chomsky

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

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

Mona Simpson

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.

Ryan Gosling

For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.

Aeschines

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

Sarah Jessica Parker

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

Michio Kaku

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

Alain de Botton

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

Anish Kapoor

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

Anne Wilson Schaef

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

Albert Einstein

If you truly believe something you will attempt to live it. Otherwise you don’t really believe it.

Toni Sorenson

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

Joe Wright

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.

Robert Walpole

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

William Tecumseh Sherman

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