Quotes of: Attempting Keyword

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Eugenio Montale

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

Monica Crowley

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

Livy

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

Augusto Roa Bastos

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.

Gerard Depardieu

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

Henry Fielding

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Federico Fellini

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

Colin Firth

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

Charles Keating

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Glenn Greenwald

My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.

James Mercer

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

John Crowe Ransom

I might attempt Zumba. I haven't yet, but I thought it would be a lot of fun and different.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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

Al Goldstein

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

Alanis Morissette

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

Eddie Cantor

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Alexander Cockburn

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Albert Einstein

The tragic hero usurps the function of the gods and attempts to remake the world.

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