Quotes of: Attempting Keyword

In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form Villette my telling that particular lie will not be required. The majority of people who attempt sui...

Veronika Decides to Die

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

Phil Ochs

The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses.

Shaping the dream

I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.

Nancy Springer

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform.

Philippe Petit

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

Rene Descartes

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Samuel Smiles

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

Theodor Adorno

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.

Terrence Howard

Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!

Thomas a Kempis

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Kamil Ali

It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

Malcolm Cowley

Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of deceny.

Morgan Freeman

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

Mahatma Gandhi

To Be Happy, You Must Know The Pass Code of Life. And Life Gives You Many Attempts To Unlock It....

Muhammad Imran Hasan

The clever cannot catch the genius; such an attempt is just an act of trying to catch the shadow of a flying bird!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.

Meghan Lamb

I always look at a group of people who want to attempt an enterprise greater than their means. They begin on this enterprise and they fail.

Mario Monicelli

Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man's last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

Randy Pausch

Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.

Robert Shapiro